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The Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Argentina () is a Catholic Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful (pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction within a Latin territory), jointly for all Eastern Catholics, regardless of rite, living in Argentina.


History

On August 27, 1897, a first community of faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church established itself in Apóstoles, in the Misiones Province. In 1908 the first priest of the Byzantine rite arrived from Brazil: Father Clemente Bzhujovski, a religious of the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat who celebrated his first Divine Liturgy in Argentina on March 21, 1908, in Posadas. At the end of the nineteenth century the immigration of Greek-Melkite Catholics began in Argentina, which peaked between 1910 and 1930. Between 1949 and 1950 there was a second wave. They were mostly natives of Syria and Lebanon but a small part of the families came from Palestine, Egypt and Jordan. The celebration of the sacraments according to their rite began in 1910 with the arrival of the
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Teófanos Badaoui. Their church of San Jorge was built in 1919 and was consecrated on 20 June 1920 by the auxiliary bishop of Córdoba Inocencio Dávila. In 1948 the Jesuit Philippe de Regis de Gatimel, former rector of the Collegium Russicum in Rome, established a mission for the faithful of the Russian Greek Catholic Church. He died in 1955. Soon after, Father Ion Dan came from Rome to give spiritual care of the faithful of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. He died on August 28, 1986. It was established on 19 February 1959 by
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, on territory previously only served by the Latin church, in which the
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united the faithful of the
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that did not have their own hierarchy in the territory of Argentina. It was established on May 17, 1959, as a personal jurisdiction over the parishes and Eastern Catholic faithful. The
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hierarch of Buenos Aires was appointed as ordinarian of the Eastern rite believers. In 1961, the Ordinariate united around 250,000 believers from various Eastern Catholic churches. It included 20 temples and 33 priests. After the formation of its church structure in Argentina, four rite- particular churches ''sui iuris'' came out of the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate of Argentina for the faithful Eastern rite and have their own
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Eparchies (dioceses) in the
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of Buenos Aires: * Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio in Buenos Aires, Ukrainian language
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for Ukrainian Catholics in all Argentina, with cathedral see in Buenos Aires, an apostolic exarchate since February 9, 1968 and eparchy since April 24, 1978. *
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, since July 3, 1981 and Eparchy of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires, from
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, an eparchy since February 18, 1989. *
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of San Charbel in Buenos Aires Maronite Catholic Eparchy of San Charbel in Buenos Aires ( es, Eparquía de San Charbel en Buenos Aires; la, Eparchia Sancti Sarbelii Bonaërensis Maronitarum) is a Maronite Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Ar ...
, an Antiochene Rite, an eparchy since October 5, 1990. * Melkite Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Argentina from
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, an apostolic exarchate since March 21, 2002.


Territory and statistics

The Ordinariate has its jurisdiction over all Eastern Rite believers in Argentina who do not have their own ordinary. At present there are missions of the
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, heirs of the Russian mission conducted by the
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and the
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in the chapel of Saints Peter and Paul in
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in which operates a priest. The chapel follows the
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and is also used by the faithful of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In the
province of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
there is also a small Russian Byzantine community founded in 1984: the Byzantine Center of Our Lady of Vladimir in
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. A small group of faithful of the Italian-Albanian Church meets at Luis Guillon, in the
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of the province of Buenos Aires. The Italo-Albanians were around 12,000 at the time of the creation of the ordinariate and were concentrated mainly in Luján. Most of them, however, passed to the
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. The few hundreds of Chaldean faithful are completions dispersed throughout the territory. As per 2013, it pastorally served 2,000 Catholics with a single parish in the capital, Buenos Aires, at Avenida Rivadavia 415.


Russian Catholic Mission in Argentina

The Russian Catholic mission in Argentina included the Russian Christian Revival Society in Buenos Aires, the publishing house and the same-named newspaper For the Truth!, the Salguero printing house, the Institute of Russian Culture in Buenos Aires, the Parish of Peter and Paul, Guames (Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul: Misión rusa, Güemes 2962), the Transfiguration of Christ Skete, El Castilla–Ba Monteverde, Los Cardales, and the Boarding School of St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called. The mission belonged to the so-called Russian apostolate. The head of the mission was Philippe de Feuges, except for him in the mission worked Russian priests
George Kovalenko George Kovalenko, SJ (1900 – 5 November 1975) was a Russian Jesuit, a priest of the Catholic Church and a member of the Russian apostolate. Biography Born into an Orthodox family of a general of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire ...
, Alexander Kulik, Nikolai Alexseev, Vsevolod Roshko and laymen M.V. Rozanov and A. Stavrovsky.


Episcopal ordinaries

''Ordinaries for Eastern Catholics in Argentina'' (all
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): *
Antonio Caggiano Antonio Caggiano (30 January 1889 – 23 October 1979) was an archbishop and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina. He played a part in helping Nazi sympathisers and war criminals escape prosecution in Europe by easing their passa ...
(15 August 1959 – retired 21 April 1975) *
Juan Carlos Aramburu Juan Carlos Aramburu (February 11, 1912 – November 18, 2004) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1975 to 1990, and was named to the College of Cardinals by Pope Paul VI in 1976. Biography Aramburu was born in rura ...
(21 April 1975 – retired 30 October 1990) * Antonio Quarracino (30 October 1990 – death 28 February 1998), Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(Argentina) (10 July 1990 – 28 February 1998), created cardinal-priest of S. Maria della Salute a Primavalle (28 June 1991 – 28 February 1998); previously Bishop of
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(Argentina) (3 February 1962 – 3 August 1968), transferred Bishop of
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(Argentina) (3 August 1968 – 18 December 1985), also secretary general of Latin American Episcopal Council (1979–1983) promoted president of Latin American Episcopal Council (1983–1987), promoted Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(Argentina) (18 December 1985 – 10 July 1990), president of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (1990–1996) *
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, S.J. (30 November 1998 – 13 March 2013), Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(28 February 1998 – 13 March 2013) (succeeding as former auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires (20 May 1992 – 3 June 1997) and
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of Auca (20 May 1992 – 3 June 1997), promoted
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of Buenos Aires 3 June 1997 – 28 February 1998); later created cardinal-priest of
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(21 February 2001 4 October 2001– 13 March 2013), president of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (8 November 2005 – 8 November 2011), elected Supreme Pontiff as
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(13 March 2013 9 March 2013– ...) *
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(4 May 2013 – ...), Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(28 March 2013 – ...), created Cardinal-Priest of the above title S. Roberto Bellarmino (22 February 2014 3 February 2014– ...), vice-president of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (11 November 2014 – ...); previously
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of
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(8 February 2002 – 24 June 2008) as Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (8 February 2002 – 24 June 2008), next Bishop of
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(Argentina) (24 June 2008 – 28 March 2013).


Auxiliary bishop of Argentina of the Eastern Rite in charge

* Andrés Sapelak, S.D.B. (14 August 1961 – 9 February 1968), born in Poland,
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of Sebastopolis in Thracia (14 August 1961 – 24 April 1978); later
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of Argentina of the Ukrainians (Argentina) (9 February 1968 – 24 April 1978), promoted Bishop of
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(Argentina) (24 April 1978 – 12 December 1997) * Manuel Augusto Cárdenas (11 November 1975 – 11 February 1992), previously Auxiliary Bishop of
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(7 April 1962 – 22 April 1975), Titular Bishop of Aulon (7 April 1962 – 28 July 1998).


See also

*
Catholic Church in Argentina , native_name_lang = pt , image = Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg , imagewidth = 230px , alt = , caption = Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral , abbreviation = , type ...
*
List of Catholic dioceses in Argentina The Catholic Church in Argentina comprises fourteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by a Metropolitan archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 48 dioceses and 14 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop. Latin/rite- ...


References


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