The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis de Cuyo) is a

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. Its archiepiscopal seat is San Juan Cathedral ( es, Catedral de San Juan Bautista), dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, in

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. The city also has a

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: the , or the Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken.

History

* In 1826

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founded the see as the Apostolic Vicariate of San Juan de Cuyo on territory taken from the Diocese of Córdoba del Tucumán.

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* Pope Gregory XVI elevated it to a diocese on 19 September 1834. * On 20 April 1934 it was elevated to a Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo / Sancti Ioannis de Cuyo (Latin) by

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. On the same date it lost territory to create the dioceses of Mendoza and the suffragan Diocese of San Luis.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 638,183 Catholics (91.0% of 701,000 total) on 89,615 km² in 43 parishes and 216 missions with 96 priests (80 diocesan, 16 religious), 8 deacons, 85 lay religious (17 brothers, 68 sisters) and 21 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan's suffragan sees are : * Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja * Roman Catholic Diocese of San Luis

Bishops

Ordinaries

;''Apostolic Vicar of San Juan de Cuyo'' # Justo Santa María de Oro, O.P. (O.P.) (1828-1834) ;''Bishops of San Juan de Cuyo'' # Justo Santa María de Oro, O.P. (1834-1836) #

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(1837-1852) #

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, O.F.M. (1858-1866) # Venceslao Javier José Achával y Medina, O.F.M. (1867-1898) #

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, O.P. (1899-1910) # José Américo Orzali (1911-1934) ;''Archbishops of San Juan de Cuyo'' # José Américo Orzali (1934-1939) # Audino Rodríguez y Olmos (1939-1965) # Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla,

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(1966-1980) # Ítalo Severino Di Stéfano (1980-2000) #

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(2000-2017) #

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(2017-present)

Coadjutor archbishop

(2016-2017)

Auxiliary Bishops of San Juan de Cuyo

* José Hilarión de Etura y Cevallos (Ceballos), O.P. (1839-1849) * José Benito Salvador de la Reta, O.F.M. (1881-1897) * Juan José Marcos Zapata (1913-1951) * Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia (1960-1961) * Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla, O.F.M. Cap. (1962-1966), appointed Archbishop here *Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R. (2019-)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario in 1946 * Enrique Pechuán Marín, appointed Bishop of Cruz del Eje in 1963

References

Sources and external links

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