Roman Catholic Diocese of Río Gallegos

Diocese of Río Gallegos
Diocese of Río Gallegos; Dioecesis Rivogallaecensis; Diócesis de Río Gallegos
	Cathedral of Our Lady of Luján
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	Bahía Blanca
Metropolitan	Bahía Blanca
Statistics
Area	265,614 km2 (102,554 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2010); 303,000; 212,000 (70%)
Parishes	30
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	10 April 1961 (59 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Lujan in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva
Metropolitan Archbishop	Guillermo José Garlatti
Bishops emeritus	Juan Carlos Romanin, SDB

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Río Gallegos is located in the city of Río Gallegos, the capital of the Patagonia region of Santa Cruz, Argentina.

Size

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Gallegos, Argentina, according to the Vatican Information Service (VIS), has an area of 265,614 square miles, a total population of 300,000, a Catholic population of 210,000, 55 priests, 9 permanent deacons, and 94 religious.

History

It was erected in 1961, and was formed from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. It is a suffragan see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bahia Blanca, Argentina. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop Emeritus Juan Carlos Romanin, S.D.B., is the immediate past Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Gallegos, having served from 2005 until 2012. On Saturday, February 19, 2011, the Vatican Information Service stated that Pope Benedict XVI had named the Right Reverend Monsignor Miguel Angel D'Annibale, until then the Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Isidro, as an Auxiliary Bishop-elect (assistant bishop) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Gallegos to Bishop Romanin, with the title of Titular Bishop of Nasai (in Numidia). The Auxiliary Bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1959, and was ordained a priest in 1985.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Mauricio Eugenio Magliano, S.D.B.(1961–1974)
Miguel Angel Alemán Eslava, S.D.B.(1975–1992)
Alejandro Antonio Buccolini, S.D.B. (1992–2005)
Juan Carlos Romanin, S.D.B. (2005–2012)
Miguel Ángel D’Annibale (2013–2018), appointed Bishop of San Martín
Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva (2019-)

Auxiliary bishop

Miguel Ángel D’Annibale (2011-2013), appointed Bishop here

References

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/driog.html

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