Catholic ecclesiastical territory
The Diocese of Morón is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Its cathedra is a Minor Basilica : Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje, in Morón, Buenos Aires, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón partido, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
History
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics (90.7% of 732,000 total) on 130 km2 in 53 parishes with 69 priests (53 diocesan, 16 religious), 30 deacons, 86 lay religious (25 brothers, 61 sisters) and 5 seminarians.
Bishops
Episcopal Ordinaries
Coadjutor bishop
Auxiliary bishops
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Gerardo Tomás Farrell, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Quilmes in 1997
- José Antonio Gentico, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 2001
- Santiago Olivera, appointed Bishop of Cruz del Eje in 2008
- Gabriel Bernardo Barba (priest here, 1989-1997), appointed Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere in 2013
- Oscar Eduardo Miñarro (priest here, 1995-1997), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno in 2016
- Fernando Miguel Gil Eisner (priest here, 1983-1997), appointed Bishop of Salto, Uruguay in 2018
See also
References
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