The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gualeguaychú is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the

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of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paraná in

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, eastern-central

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. Its

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episcopal see is Catedral San José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in Gualeguaychú, also in Entre Rios province, which also has a

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: Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción del Uruguay, dedicated to the

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, in

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History

Established on 11 February 1957 as Diocese of Gualeguaychú / Gualeguaychen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Paraná.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 308,410 Catholics (89.7% of 343,789 total) on 33,887 km² in 35 parishes and a mission with 61 priests (48 diocesan, 13 religious), 4 deacons, 77 lay religious (23 brothers, 54 sisters) and 10 seminarians.

Bishops

Ordinaries

# Jorge Ramón Chalup (1957-1966) # Pedro Boxler (1967-1996) #

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(1996-2004), appointed Bishop of Morón # Jorge Eduardo Lozano (2005-2016), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo # Héctor Luis Zordán, M.SS.CC. (2017–present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Ricardo Oscar Faifer, appointed Bishop of Goya in 2002

Sources and external links

* Roman Catholic dioceses in Argentina Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Paraná

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