DIOCESE OF CORRIENTES. - City in the Argentine Republic, capital of the province of the same name. It is situated 37 km south of the confluence of the Paraná and Paraguay rivers. It was founded on 3 April 1588 by F. Vera y Aragón, who called it S. Juan de Vera de las Siete Corrientes. The diocese was erected by Pius X on 3 February 1910; it has an area of 119,333 sq km and a population of 800,000 inhabitants, of whom 650,000 are Catholics. It has 39 parishes, with 217 churches, served by 91 diocesan priests and 42 regulars; it has a seminary (1948). The church, today the Cathedral, dedicated to the Invention of the Holy Cross, had been built with offerings from the population; other churches worthy of note are those of Our Lady of Mercy, of St. Francis, and of the Holy Cross. In the diocese there is a flourishing Italian community.
BibliographyAnon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., XV, pp. 970-75.
BIBL.: Anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., XV, pp. 970-75.
Josi, Enrico. “Corrientes, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 651. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/corrientes-diocesi-di.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Corrientes, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 651. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/corrientes-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_corrientes_diocesi_di,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Corrientes, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {651},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/corrientes-diocesi-di}
}
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