Diocese of

Quilmes 𝐖

Argentina

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Quilmes / Quilmen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Buenos Aires

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Inmaculada Concepción (December 8), Exaltación de la Santa Cruz (September 14)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1976.06.19: Established as Diocese of Quilmes / Quilmen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of La Plata and Diocese of Avellaneda and became suffragan of La Plata)
2007.09.26: Became suffragan of Buenos Aires

Contact Info

Address: Carlos Pellegrini 3280, B1879DLB, Quilmes, Argentina

Phone: (011) 4250-1082

Present Prelates

Bishop (2011.10.12 – ...):	Bishop Carlos José Tissera (73)
Auxiliary Bishop (2022.10.15 – ...):	Bishop Eduardo Gonzalo Redondo Castanera, H.S.O.D. (57) Titular Bishop of Tingaria

Ordinaries

Bishops of Quilmes (Roman Rite)

Bishop Carlos José Tissera (73)
(2011.10.12 – ...)

Bishop of Quilmes (Argentina)

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Born:	1951.09.10 (Rio Cuarto, Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1978.04.07
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.02.06

Priest of Río Cuarto (Argentina) (1978.04.07 – 2004.11.16)

Bishop of San Francisco (Argentina) (2004.11.16 – 2011.10.12)

Bishop of Quilmes (Argentina) (2011.10.12 – ...)

Bishop Luis Teodorico Stöckler (88)
(2002.02.25 – 2011.10.12)

Bishop emeritus of Quilmes (Argentina)

Born:	1936.04.12 (Eichelborn, Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1960.12.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1985.12.17

Priest of Paderborn (Germany) (1960.12.17 – 1985.11.21)

Bishop of Goya (Argentina) (1985.11.21 – 2002.02.25)

Bishop of Quilmes (Argentina) (2002.02.25 – 2011.10.12)

Bishop Jorge Novak, S.V.D.
(1976.08.07 – 2001.07.09)

Born:	1928.01.29 (Argentina)
Ordained Priest:	1954.01.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1976.09.19
Died:	2001.07.09 († 73)

Bishop of Quilmes (Argentina) (1976.08.07 – 2001.07.09)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Gerardo Tomás Farrell (1997.03.29 – 2000.05.19)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Marcelo Julián Margni (53) (2017.12.05 – 2021.08.07)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, Quilmes, Buenos Aires
National Shrine: Santuario Nacional Virgen de Schoenstatt, Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
Shrines in the Ordinary Jubilee 2025

Churches by City (81)

Lomas de Zamora (←), Avellaneda–Lanús (↖), La Plata (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 503 km²

Population: 1,194,800 Catholics (80.0% of 1,494,426 total)

Pastoral Centres: 80 parishes, 220 missions

Personnel: 95 priests (67 diocesan, 28 religious), 122 deacons, 194 religious (37 brothers, 157 sisters), 8 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2024.12.15

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