SAN GIOVANNI DI CUYO (San Juan de Cuyo), Archdiocese of. - City and archdiocese in the province of San Juan in the Republic of Argentina.

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 priests and 14 regulars; it has 2 male religious communities and 9 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1952, p. 354).

The region was part of the archdiocese of Santiago de Chile until 1776, the year in which it passed under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Cordoba; 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 this became a suffragan of Buenos Aires from 1856. Its first bishop was Msgr. Justo de S. Maria de Oro. Pope Pius XI, with the apostolic constitution Nobilis Argentinae nationis of 20 Apr. 1934, raised it to the rank of metropolitan see, assigning to it as suffragans the dioceses of Mendoza and San Luis in Argentina. The Cathedral is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

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BIBL.: AAS, 27 (1935), p. 261; anon. s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LIII (1926), pp. 752-53; I. Fernandez, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, p. 447.

Enrico Josi

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