Roman Catholic Diocese of Posadas

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Posadas (Latin: Dioecesis Posadensis) is a Catholic diocese located in the city of Posadas, Misiones in the ecclesiastical province of Corrientes in Argentina.

Diocese of Posadas Dioecesis Posadensis Diócesis de Posadas
Cathedral of St Joseph
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	Corrientes
Metropolitan	Corrientes
Statistics
Area	13,206 km2 (5,099 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2004) 769,000 552,890 (71.9%)
Parishes	37
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	11 February 1957 (68 years ago)
Cathedral	St. Joseph's Cathedral in Posadas, Misiones
Patron saint	St Ignatius of Loyola St Roque González de Santa Cruz
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Juan Rubén Martinez
Metropolitan Archbishop	Andrés Stanovnik

History

On 11 February 1957, Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Posadas from the Diocese of Corrientes. It lost territory in 1986 when the Diocese of Puerto Iguazú was established and again in 2009 when the Diocese of Puerto Oberá was established.^[1][2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Jorge Kémérer S.V.D. (1957–1986)
• Carmelo Juan Giaquinta (1986–1993), appointed Archbishop of Resistencia
• Alfonso Delgado Evers (1994–2000), appointed Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
• Juan Rubén Martinez (2000– )

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Victor Selvino Arenhart, appointed Bishop of Oberá in 2009