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Metropolitan Sees (Archdioceses) (14)

Archiepiscopal Sees (Archdioceses) (1)

Episcopal Sees (Dioceses) (51)

Territorial Prelatures (4)

Apostolic Exarchates (1)

Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Rite (1)

Military Ordinariates (1)

Roman Rite (68): Alto Valle del Río Negro, Añatuya, Avellaneda–Lanús, Azul, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Cafayate, Catamarca, Chascomús, Comodoro Rivadavia, Concepción, Concordia, Córdoba, Corrientes, Cruz del Eje, Deán Funes, Esquel, Formosa, Goya, Gregorio de Laferrere, Gualeguaychú, Humahuaca, Jujuy, La Plata, La Rioja, Lomas de Zamora, Mar del Plata, Mendoza, Mercedes–Luján, Merlo–Moreno, Morón, Neuquén, Nueve de Julio, Oberá, Obispado Castrense de la Argentina, Orán, Paraná, Posadas, Puerto Iguazú, Quilmes, Rafaela, Rawson, Reconquista, Resistencia, Río Cuarto, Río Gallegos, Rosario, Salta, San Carlos de Bariloche, San Francisco, San Isidro, San Juan de Cuyo, San Justo, San Luis, San Martín, San Miguel, San Nicolás de los Arroyos, San Rafael, San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Santa Rosa, Santiago del Estero, Santo Tomé, Tucumán, Venado Tuerto, Viedma, Villa María, Zárate–Campana

Armenian Church (1): San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires

Greek-Melkite Church (1): Argentina

Maronite Church (1): San Charbel en Buenos Aires

Ukrainian Church (1): Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires

Eastern Rite without proper Ordinary (1): Ordinariato para los fieles de ritos orientales en Argentina

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Victor Manuel Fernández (63)

Mario Aurelio Poli (78)

Ángel Sixto Rossi, S.J. (67)

Leonardo Sandri (82)

Luis Héctor Villalba (91)

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Patron Saint: Nuestra Señora de Luján (May 8)

Saints: 5 Saints, 17 Blesseds

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Continent: South America

Capital: Buenos Aires

Area: 2,736,690 km²

Population: 44,293,293

Neighbouring Countries: ← Chile , ↑ Bolivia , ↗ Paraguay , ↗ Brazil , → Uruguay , ↘ Falkland Islands , ↘ South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 92% (less than 20% practicing), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%

Languages: Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French, indigenous (Mapudungun, Quechua)

Ethnic Groups: European (mostly Spanish and Italian descent) and mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian ancestry) 97.2%, Amerindian 2.4%, African 0.4%

Motto: En Unión y Libertad (Spanish) (In Union and Liberty)

Area: 2,780,400 km²

Catholic Population: 42,791,000 Catholics (91.7% of 46,655,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 2,900 parishes, 329 mission stations (10 with resident priest, 319 without resident priest), 7,255 other centres

Clergy: 144 bishops (70 diocesan, 74 titular), 5,160 priests (3,795 diocesan, 1,365 religious), 1,239 permanent deacons (1,235 diocesan, 4 religious)

Non-Clergy: 6,608 religious (508 brothers, 6,100 sisters), 566 members of secular institutes (27 brothers, 539 sisters), 947 major seminarians, 21,217 missionaries, 82,638 catechists