Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña / Sancti Rochi (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Resistencia

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Roch (August 16), lnmaculada Concepción (December 8)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1963.08.12: Established as Diocese of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña / Sancti Rochi (Latin) (from Diocese of Resistencia and became suffragan of Corrientes)
1984.02.28: Became suffragan of Resistencia
1992.02.28: Renamed as Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña / Sancti Rochi (Latin)

Contact Info

Address: Güemes 260, H3700HJF, Presidencia Roque Saénz Peña, Argentina

Phone: (03732) 420426

Present Prelates

Bishop (2008.04.22 – ...):

Bishop Hugo Nicolás Barbaro, Opus Dei (74)

Ordinaries

Bishops of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Roman Rite)

Bishop Hugo Nicolás Barbaro, Opus Dei (74)
(2008.04.22 – ...)

Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina)

Camina en mi presencia y sé fiel

Born:	1950.12.12 (Vicente López, Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1980.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.07.04

Priest of Opus Dei (Italy) (1980.08.15 – 2008.04.22)

Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina) (2008.04.22 – ...)

Bishop José Lorenzo Sartori
(1994.08.27 – 2008.04.22)

En el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo

Born:	1932.05.24 (Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1956.12.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1994.11.19
Died:	2018.10.02 († 86)

Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina) (1994.08.27 – 2008.04.22)

Bishop Abelardo Francisco Silva
(1992.02.28 – 1994.03.31)

Alabado sea Jesucristo

Born:	1924.07.26 (Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1955.09.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.12.08
Died:	2005.07.15 († 80)

Bishop of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina) (1981.10.28 – 1992.02.28)

Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina) (1992.02.28 – 1994.03.31)

Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel (Argentina) (1994.03.31 – 1994.11.12)

Bishop of San Miguel (Argentina) (1994.11.12 – 2000.03.17)

Bishops of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Roman Rite)

Bishop Abelardo Francisco Silva
(1981.10.28 – 1992.02.28)

(see above)

Bishop Ítalo Severino Di Stéfano (later Archbishop)
(1963.08.12 – 1980.11.08)

Born:	1923.01.17 (Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1946.09.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1964.04.19
Died:	2002.10.11 († 79)

Bishop of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (Argentina) (1963.08.12 – 1980.11.08)

Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo (Argentina) (1980.11.08 – 2000.03.29)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Gustavo Alejandro Montini (54) (2014.02.14 – 2016.12.16)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral San Roque, Sáenz Peña, Chaco
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (27)

Añatuya (↙), Salta (←), Orán (↖), Formosa (↑), Resistencia (→), Reconquista (↘), Rafaela (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 71,303 km²

Population: 587,400 Catholics (85.2% of 689,400 total)

Pastoral Centres: 24 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 43 priests (33 diocesan, 10 religious), 116 religious (12 brothers, 104 sisters), 9 seminarians