AZUL, DIOCESE OF. — In Argentina, suffragan of Buenos Aires, in the homonymous province, erected on 20 Apr. 1934, with twenty-three parishes of the diocese of La Plata. It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary. The diocese has a surface area of 72,936 sq. km. and counts 427,500 Catholics out of 450,000 inhabitants; 25 parishes; 49 diocesan priests and 14 regular clergy.
BIBL.: AAS, 26 (1934), p. 558; 27 (1935), pp. 258, 259, 261; Anuario Católico Argentino, 1935, pp. 432-434; 1939, p. 299.