The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos is based in the city of
San Nicolás de los Arroyos
San Nicolás de los Arroyos (usually shortened to ''San Nicolás'') is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the western shore of the Paraná River, from Rosario. It has about 133,000 inhabitants (). It is the administrative seat ...
, which is usually shortened to San Nicolás, and is a suffragan of the archdiocese of
Rosario,
Argentina
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.
History
On 3 March 1947,
Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos from territory taken from the
Diocese of La Plata and the
Diocese of Mercedes. It lost territory to the
Diocese of San Isidro when it was created in 1957 and the
Diocese of Zárate-Campana in 1976.
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Apparations approved
The diocesan seat, the Cathedral of St Nicholas of Myra, was home to a neglected statue of Our Lady of the Rosary that had been blessed by Pope Leo XIII. The statue was rediscovered after an image of Our Lady appeared in a vision to a local lay woman mother-of-two Gladys Motta, leading to a renewed devotion under the title
Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás and the erection of a new Sanctuary with hostel for pilgrims and a center for promoting popular piety. In a decree signed on May 22, 2016 and made public a few days later, Héctor Cardelli, Bishop of the Diocese of San Nicolás, declared that the apparitions that occurred over a number of years beginning in the 1980s were supernatural in origin. The devotion is thus approved "worthy of belief" at the Diocesan level within the Catholic Church.
"Marian apparition has been approved in Argentina"
news bulletin published online on June 4, 2016 by Catholic News Agency
Ordinaries
* Silvino Martínez (1954–1959), appointed Bishop of Rosario
* Francisco Juan Vénnera (1959–1966)
* Carlos Horacio Ponce de Léon (1966–1977)
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(1977–1983), appointed Archbishop of Corrientes
* Domingo Salvador Castagna (1984–1994), appointed Archbishop of Corrientes
* Mario Luis Bautista Maulión (1995–2003), appointed Archbishop of Paraná
* Héctor Sabatino Cardelli (2004–2016)
*Hugo Norberto Santiago
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(2016–
References
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Roman Catholic dioceses in Argentina
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Rosario
Christian organizations established in 1934
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century