Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate
Catholic particular church territory
Territorial Prelature of Cafayate Territorialis Praelatura Cafayatensis Prelatura Territorial de Cafayate | |
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Location | |
Country | ![]() |
Ecclesiastical province | Salta |
Metropolitan | Salta |
Statistics | |
Area | 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 54,625 53,194 (97.4%) |
Parishes | 7 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 8 September 1969 (218 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Cafayate |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Prelate | Darío Rubén Quintana Muñiz, O.A.R. |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Mario Antonio Cargnello |
Bishops emeritus | Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A. |
The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Cafayatensis) is in Argentina and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salta.
History
On 8 September 1969, Pope Paul VI established the Territorial Prelature of Cafayate from territory taken from the Diocese of Catamarca and the Archdiocese of Salta.[1]
Ordinaries
- Diego Gutiérrez Pedraza, O.S.A. (1973–1990)
- Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A. (1991–2007)
- Mariano Moreno García, O.S.A. (2007–2014)
- José Demetrio Jiménez Sánchez-Mariscal, O.S.A. (2014–2019)
- Darío Rubén Quintana Muñiz, O.A.R. (2022–present)
External links and references
- ^ "Territorial Prelature of Cafayate". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
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