Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. X, 1953 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Santiago del Estero, Diocese of

SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, DIOCESI DI

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SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, DIOCESE OF. - City and diocese of the Argentine Republic in the department of the same name.

The diocese has an area of 154,670 sq km, with a population of 688,796 inhabitants, of whom 660,000 are Catholics, distributed among 27 parishes. The clergy consists of 40 diocesan priests and 17 regulars; it has a seminary, 4 male religious communities and 5 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1952, p. 365). S. was erected on 25 March 1907 by Pope Pius X as a suffragan of Buenos Aires. The first bishop was Msgr. Juan Martín Janiz. The Cathedral is dedicated to the apostle St. James the Greater. The diocese is now a suffragan of Paraná.

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BIBL.: E. Macpherson, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIII, p. 462; anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LIV (1927), p. 309.

Enrico Josi

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), col. 1857.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Santiago del Estero, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {X},
  pages     = {1857},
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  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/santiago-del-estero-diocesi-di}
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