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Suffragan diocese Zárate–Campana, Argentina

Diocese of Zárate–Campana

Zaraten(sis)-Campanen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin Catholic diocese in northern Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, erected on 21 April 1976 by Pope Paul VI. Its cathedral is in Campana with a co-cathedral in Belen de Escobar. Suffragan to the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Lujan since 2019, led by Bishop Pedro Maria Laxague since 2015.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Saint Florentina, in Zárate–Campana, Argentina.

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Established
1976
Catholics
636,000
Priests
73
Territory
5,903 km²

Parishes and churches

35 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Pedro María Laxague
Born
4 September 1952
Birthplace
Coronel Pringles

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Saint Florentina stands in Zárate–Campana, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Lord.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

History

A Latin rite suffragan see in central Argentina on the Atlantic coast, the Diocese of Zárate-Campana (Latin: Dioecesis Zaratensis-Campanensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján, its metropolitan having changed from La Plata in 2019. The bishop's seat is Catedral Santa Florentina in Campana, dedicated to Saint Florentina, and the diocese also holds a co-cathedral in Belén de Escobar, likewise in Buenos Aires Province: Cocatedral Natividad del Señor, dedicated to the Nativity of Our Lord.