SAN GIOVANNI DI CUYO (SAN JUAN DE CUYO), ARCHDIOCESE of. - City and archdiocese of the province of S. Juan in the Argentine Republic.
It has an area of 89,179 sq. km., with a population of 275,000 inhabitants, of whom 250,000 are Catholics; it has 20 parishes served by 32 diocesan and 14 regular priests; it has 2 male and 9 female religious communities (Ann. Pont. 1952, p. 354).
The region formed part of the archdiocese of Santiago del Cile until 1776, when it passed under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Cordova; in 1826 Leo XII established the apostolic vicariate of the region; on 19 Sept. 1833 Gregory XVI created the diocese under the name of S. G. di C., and from 1856 it became a suffragan of Buenos Aires. Its first bishop was Msgr. Justo de S. Maria de Oro. Pope Pius XI, by the apostolic constitution Nobilis Argentinae nationis of 20 Apr. 1934, raised it to metropolitan rank, assigning to it as suffragans the dioceses of Mendoza and S. Luigi in Argentina. The Cathedral is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.