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The Bishop of Argentina is a

bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...

in the Anglican communion, the head of the Anglican Diocese of Argentina within the

Anglican Church of South America The Anglican Church of South America ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Formed in 198 ...

. The diocese was founded in 1910 from the Diocese of the Falkland Islands.Markham. Ian S. & al. (eds), "La Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur (The Anglican Province of the Cono Sur)" (Chapter 50) in ''The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion'
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(Accessed 7 September 2016) The diocesan seat is the cathedral of St John the Baptist in Buenos Aires, which at one time succeeded the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

as the

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for the whole of South America but it is now the seat for the Diocese of Argentina only. The incumbent diocesan bishop is Brian Williams, who was appointed in 2020.

List of Bishops

* 1869-1900

Waite Hockin Stirling Waite Hockin Stirling (1829 – 19 November 1923) was a 19th-century missionary with the Patagonian Missionary Society (later known as the South American Missionary Society) and was the first Anglican Bishop of the Falkland Islands. He was br ...

* 1902–1937 Edward Francis Every * 1937–1945 John Reginald Weller * 1946–1962 Daniel Ivor Evans * 1963–1975 Cyril James Tucker * 1975–1989 Richard Stanley Cutts * 1990-2002 David Leake * 2002–2020 Gregory James Venables * 2020- Brian Roger Williams

References

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