PARANÁ, Archdiocese of. - City and archdiocese of Argentina (South America), capital of the province of Entre Rios, situated on the left bank of the river of the same name.
It has an area of 75,000 sq km with a population of 840,000 inhabitants, of whom 735,000 are Catholics; it has 55 parishes served by 97 diocesan priests and 77 regulars; it has 1 seminary, 7 male religious communities and 51 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 310).
The diocese was created by Pius IX with a bull of 13 June 1859 as a suffragan of Buenos Aires. The first bishop was Msgr. José Gabriel Segura y Curas, who took possession of the see on 3 June 1860. His successors were Msgrs. José María Gelabert y Crespo (1865); Rosendo de la Lastra y Gordillo (1909); Abel Bazan y Bustos (1911). Pope Pius XI, with the apostolic constitution Nobilis Argentinae nationis of 20 April 1934, elevated the diocese of P. to a metropolitan see, assigning to it as suffragans the dioceses of Corrientes and Santiago del Estero.
The first and current archbishop is Msgr. Z. L. Guilland, elected on 18 September 1934 and consecrated on 3 March 1935.
Bibliography4 worksGuia ecclesiastica de Argentina, Buenos Aires 1910; AAS, 27 (1935), p. 261; anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LXI, p. 1344; C. Poyet, s. v. in
BIBL.: Guia ecclesiastica de Argentina, Buenos Aires 1910; AAS, 27 (1935), p. 261; anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LXI, p. 1344; C. Poyet, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XI, pp. 475-76.
Josi, Enrico. “Paranà, arcidiocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 808. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/parana-arcidiocesi-di.
MLA
Josi, Enrico. “Paranà, arcidiocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 808. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/parana-arcidiocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_parana_arcidiocesi_di,
author = {Josi, Enrico},
title = {Paranà, arcidiocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {808},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/parana-arcidiocesi-di}
}
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