Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VII, 1951 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Jujuy, Diocese of

JUJUY, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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JUJUY, Diocese of. - Diocese and capital city of the province of the same name in Argentina.

The diocese has an area of 56,551 sq. km. with 166,943 inhabitants, of whom 166,710 are Catholics; it has 17 parishes, 24 diocesan priests and 10 regular priests, a seminary, 2 male religious communities and 5 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1951, p. 225).

The diocese was created by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Nobilis Argentinae nationis of 20 April 1934, as a suffragan of the archdiocese of Salta and raising the church of the Most Holy Savior to the rank of cathedral.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: AAS, 27 (1934), pp. 257-63; Enc. Eur. Am., VI (appendix), pp. 614-15.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), col. 623.

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Josi, Enrico. “Jujuy, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 623. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/jujuy-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Jujuy, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 623. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/jujuy-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Jujuy, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {623},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
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