Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán

Archdiocese of Tucumán Archidioecesis Tucumanensis Arquidiócesis de Tucumán
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Incarnation
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	Tucumán
Statistics
Area	10,996 km2 (4,246 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 1,112,000 1,034,201 (93%)
Parishes	47
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	15 February 1897 (127 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of the Incarnation in San Miguel de Tucumán
Patron saint	Virgin of Mercy St Jude the Apostle St Simon the Apostle
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Auxiliary Bishops	Roberto José Ferrari
Bishops emeritus	Luis Héctor Villalba
Website
www.arztucuman.org.ar

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán (Latin: Archidioecesis Tucumanensis) is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese. Its suffragan sees include Añatuya, Concepción and Santiago del Estero.

History

The first Diocese of Tucumán was erected in 1570 but the see was in Santiago del Estero, until 1697, and later in Córdoba: it is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Córdoba.

On 15 February 1897 Pope Leo XIII founded the new Diocese of Tucumán from territory taken from the Diocese of Salta. Pope Pius XII elevated it to an archdiocese on 11 February 1957. It lost territory to the Diocese of Concepción when it was created in 1963.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Pedro Miguel Argandoña Pastene Salazar (1744–1762)
• Pablo Padilla y Bárcena (1898–1921)
• Barnabé Piedrabuena (1923–1928)
• Agustín Barrere, F.M.I. (1930–1952)
• Juan Carlos Aramburu (1953–1967), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires; future Cardinal
• Blas Victorio Conrero (1968–1982)
• Horacio Alberto Bózzoli (1983–1993)
• Raúl Arsenio Casado (1994–1999)
• Luis Héctor Villalba (1999–2011) (Cardinal in 2015)
• Alfredo Zecca (2011–2017)
• Carlos Alberto Sánchez (2017–present)

Coadjutor archbishop

• Carlos José Ñáñez (1995-1998), did not succeed to the see; appointed Archbishop of Córdoba

Auxiliary bishops

• Barnabé Piedrabuena (1907-1910), appointed Bishop of Catamarca (later returned here as Bishop)
• Carlos Echenique Altamira (1914-1922)
• Juan Carlos Aramburu (1946-1953), appointed Bishop here; future Cardinal

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Luis Urbanč, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Catamarca in 2006
• José Melitón Chávez, appointed Bishop of Añatuya in 2015

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1963		Diocese of Concepción