The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago del Estero ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi de Estero) is in
Argentina
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and is a
suffragan diocese of
Tucumán.
History
On 10 April 1961
Pope John XXIII
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founded the Diocese of Santiago del Estero from territory taken from the
Diocese of Tucumán. It lost territory to the
Diocese of Añatuya when that diocese was created in 1961.
Bishops
Ordinaries
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Juan Martín Yáñez (1910–1926)
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Audino Rodríguez y Olmos (1927–1939), appointed Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
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José Weimann,
C.Ss.R. (1940–1961)
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Manuel Tato (1961–1980)
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Manuel Guirao (1981–1994)
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Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo (1994–1998)
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Juan Carlos Maccarone Juan Carlos Maccarone (19 October 1940 – 29 March 2015) was an Argentine Roman Catholic bishop.
Early life and ordination
Maccarone was born on 19 October 1940 in Buenos Aires. After receiving a formal education, he studied Roman Catholic theolog ...
(1999–2005)
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Francisco Polti Santillán (2006–2013)
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Vicente Bokalic Iglic (2013–present)
Coadjutor bishop
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Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo (1993–1994)
Auxiliary bishops
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Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi (2008-2015), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Nueve de Julio
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Enrique Alberto Martínez Ossola
Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin.
Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk ( ...
(2017-
References
Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero
1907 establishments in Argentina
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