Diocese of Gualeguaychú


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gualeguaychú is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paraná in Entre Ríos Province, eastern-central Argentina.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral San José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in Gualeguaychú, also in Entre Rios province, which also has a Minor basilica : Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción del Uruguay, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Concepción del Uruguay.
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History

Established on 11 February 1957 as Diocese of Gualeguaychú / Gualeguaychen, on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Paraná.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 308,410 Catholics on 33,887 km² in 35 parishes and a mission with 61 priests, 4 deacons, 77 lay religious and 10 seminarians.

Bishops

Ordinaries

  1. Jorge Ramón Chalup
  2. Pedro Boxler
  3. Luis Guillermo Eichhorn, appointed Bishop of Morón
  4. Jorge Eduardo Lozano, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
  5. Héctor Luis Zordán, M.SS.CC.

Another priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Ricardo Oscar Faifer, appointed Bishop of Goya in 2002