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

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of the Metropolitan

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, eastern-central

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. Its

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episcopal see is Catedral San José, dedicated to

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, 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

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) # Luis Guillermo Eichhorn (1996-2004), appointed Bishop of Morón #

Jorge Eduardo Lozano Jorge Eduardo Lozano (born 10 February 1955) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 2000 until 2005, when he became bishop of Gualeguaychú. He became coadjutor archbishop of San Juan de Cu ...

(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

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, 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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