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 provinces of Argentina, province of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the western shore of the Paraná River, from Rosario. It has about 133,000 ...

, which is usually shortened to San Nicolás, and is a suffragan of the archdiocese of

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the ...

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

History

On 3 March 1947,

Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII (; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. He is the most recent p ...

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.

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) * Fortunato Antonio Rossi (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 Héctor Sabatino Cardelli (30 August 1941 – 7 November 2022) was an Argentine Roman Catholic prelate. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. He served as auxiliary bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rosario, Rosario, titular bishop ...

(2004–2016) * Hugo Norberto Santiago (2016–

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:San Nicolas de los Arroyos 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