Territorial Prelature of Deán Funes, Argentina

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Deán Funes / Funesiopolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Córdoba

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Nuestra Señora de la Merced (September 24), Saint Francis Solanus (July 24)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1980.01.25: Established as Territorial Prelature of Deán Funes / Funesiopolitan(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Cruz del Eje and became suffragan of Córdoba)
2011.11.09: Lost territory to Diocese of Cruz del Eje

Contact Info

Address: Colón 584, X5200ALL, Deán Funes, Córdoba, Argentina

Phone: (03521) 420522

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2023.10.28 – ...):

Bishop Enrique Eguía Seguí (62)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Deán Funes (Roman Rite)

Bishop Enrique Eguía Seguí (62)
(2023.10.28 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina)

Born:	1962.12.09 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1988.12.03
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.10.11

Priest of Buenos Aires (Argentina) (1988.12.03 – 2008.09.04)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Argentina (2008 – 2014.11.11)

Titular Bishop of Cissi (2008.09.04 – 2023.10.28)

Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2008.09.04 – 2023.10.28)

Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina) (2023.10.28 – ...)

Bishop Gustavo Gabriel Zurbriggen (61)
(2013.12.21 – 2023.06.21)

Bishop of Concordia (Argentina)

Sigueme

Born:	1963.11.26 (Curupaity, Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1990.10.26
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.12.09

Priest of Rafaela (Argentina) (1990.10.26 – 2011.10.12)

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina) (2011.10.12 – 2013.12.21)

Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina) (2013.12.21 – 2023.06.21)

Bishop of Concordia (Argentina) (2023.06.21 – ...)

Bishop Aurelio José Kühn Hergenreder, O.F.M. (86)
(2000.01.18 – 2013.12.21)

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Deán Funes (Argentina)

Born:	1938.12.08 (Aldea Santa Maria, Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1963.08.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.03.25

Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina) (2000.01.18 – 2013.12.21)

Bishop Lucas Luis Dónnelly, O. de M.
(1980.12.30 – 2000.01.18)

Prædica verbum

Born:	1921.07.29 (Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1946.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.01.06
Died:	2012.08.31 († 91)

Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina) (1980.12.30 – 2000.01.18)

Bishop Ramón Iribarne Arámburu, O. de M.
(1980.01.25 – 1980.07.02)

Born:	1921.05.26 (Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1944.09.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1980.04.19
Died:	1980.07.02 († 59)

Bishop-Prelate of Deán Funes (Argentina) (1980.01.25 – 1980.07.02)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate: Bishop Gustavo Gabriel Zurbriggen (61) (2011.10.12 – 2013.12.21)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Deán Funes, Cordoba
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (8)

Cruz del Eje (↙), Catamarca (↖), Santiago del Estero (↑), Rafaela (→), San Francisco (↘), Córdoba (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 28,700 km²

Population: 66,474 Catholics (96.0% of 69,250 total)

Pastoral Centres: 8 parishes

Personnel: 9 priests (diocesan), 11 religious (6 brothers, 5 sisters), 1 seminarian