Territorial Prelature of Cafayate, Argentina

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Cafayate / Cafayaten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Salta

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nuestra Señora del Rosario (October 7)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1969.09.08: Established as Territorial Prelature of Cafayate / Cafayaten(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Salta, Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tucumán and Diocese of Catamarca and became suffragan of Salta)

Contact Info

Address: Nuestra Señora del Rosario 52, A4427AZB, Cafayate, Argentina

Phone: (03868) 421227

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2022.04.21 – ...):

Bishop Dario Rubén Quintana, O.A.R. (53)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Cafayate (Roman Rite)

Bishop Dario Rubén Quintana, O.A.R. (53)
(2022.04.21 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Cafayate (Argentina)

Ut unum sint

Born:	1971.02.04 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1997.05.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.12.28

Titular Bishop of Bavagaliana (2019.11.05 – 2022.04.21)

Auxiliary Bishop of Mar del Plata (Argentina) (2019.11.05 – 2022.04.21)

Bishop-Prelate of Cafayate (Argentina) (2022.04.21 – ...)

Fr. Pablo Hernando Moreno, O.S.A.
(Apostolic Administrator 2019.10.28 – 2022.04.21)

Bishop José Demetrio Jiménez Sánchez-Mariscal, O.S.A.
(2014.02.10 – 2019.10.23)

Ten caridad, predica la verdad

Born:	1963.10.08 (Los Cerralbos, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1988.06.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.05.10
Died:	2019.10.23 (Buenos Aires, Argentina † 56)

Bishop-Prelate of Cafayate (Argentina) (2014.02.10 – 2019.10.23)

Bishop Mariano Anastasio Moreno García, O.S.A.
(2007.11.17 – 2014.02.10)

Para que todos sean uno

Born:	1938.09.07 (Milagros, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1957.07.26
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.03.09
Died:	2023.08.16 (Madrid, Spain † 84)

Bishop-Prelate of Cafayate (Argentina) (2007.11.17 – 2014.02.10)

Bishop Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A. (92)
(1991.05.28 – 2007.01.26)

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Cafayate (Argentina)

Me desgastaré por vuestras almas

Born:	1931.12.23 (Santibáñez de Tera, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1956.07.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.08.11

Bishop-Prelate of Cafayate (Argentina) (1991.05.28 – 2007.01.26)

Bishop Diego Gutiérrez Pedraza, O.S.A.
(1973.10.10 – 1990.11.23)

Born:	1926.09.26 (Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1951.03.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.12.16
Died:	1990.11.23 († 64)

Titular Bishop of Gaguari (1973.10.10 – 1977.11.03)

Bishop-Prelate of Cafayate (Argentina) (1973.10.10 – 1990.11.23)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Cafayate, Salta
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (8)

Copiapó (↙), Antofagasta (↖), Salta (↗), Tucumán (→), Concepción (↘), Catamarca (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 50,000 km²

Population: 69,900 Catholics (93.7% of 74,600 total)

Pastoral Centres: 8 parishes, 120 missions

Personnel: 13 priests (9 diocesan, 4 religious), 2 deacons, 25 religious (6 brothers, 19 sisters), 1 seminarian