Diocese of Morón
The Diocese of Morón is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Its cathedra is a Minor Basilica : Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje, in Morón, Buenos Aires, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón partido, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
History
- Erected on 11 February 1957 as Diocese of Morón / Moronen, on territory split off from Archdiocese of La Plata
- Lost territories thrice : on 1961.04.10 to establish Diocese of San Martín, on 1969.07.18 to establish Diocese of San Justo and on 1997.05.13 to establish Diocese of Merlo–Moreno
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics on 130 km2 in 53 parishes with 69 priests, 30 deacons, 86 lay religious and 5 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal Ordinaries
- Miguel Raspanti, S.D.B., died 1991
- Justo Oscar Laguna, died 2011
- Luis Guillermo Eichhorn, died 2022
- Jorge Vázquez
- Alejandro Pablo Benna
Coadjutor bishop
Auxiliary bishops
- Fernando María Bargalló, appointed Bishop of Merlo-Moreno
- Carlos Walter Galán Barry, appointed Archbishop of La Plata
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Gerardo Tomás Farrell, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Quilmes in 1997
- José Antonio Gentico, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 2001
- Santiago Olivera, appointed Bishop of Cruz del Eje in 2008
- Gabriel Bernardo Barba, appointed Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere in 2013
- Oscar Eduardo Miñarro, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno in 2016
- Fernando Miguel Gil Eisner, appointed Bishop of Salto, Uruguay in 2018