Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo

Archdiocese of Montevideo

*Archidioecesis Montisvidei*
Archdiocese of Montevideo; Archidioecesis Montisvidei
	Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, St. Philip and St. James
Location
Country	Uruguay
Ecclesiastical province	Montevideo
Statistics
Area	540 km2 (210 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2004); 1,350,000; 850,000 (63%)
Parishes	77
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	14 August 1832 (189 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción y San Felipe y Santiago
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B.
Auxiliary Bishops	Luis Eduardo González Cedrés ; Pablo Alfonso Jourdán Alvariza
Bishops emeritus	Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, S.D.B.
Map
Website
	www.arquidiocesis.net

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo (Latin: Archidioecesis Montisvidei) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Uruguay.

History[]

Erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo by Pope Gregory XVI on 14 August 1832, the vicariate was promoted to the Diocese of Montevideo on 13 July 1878 by Pope Leo XIII. It was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 14 April 1897.^[1]^[2]

The new archdiocese became the Metropolitan of the suffragan sees: Canelones, Florida, Maldonado–Punta del Este, Melo, Mercedes, Minas, Salto, San José de Mayo, Tacuarembó.

Montevideo is the only archdiocese in Uruguay and its archbishop is thus seen as leader of the Uruguayan Church. The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral.

The current archbishop of Montevideo is Daniel Sturla, SDB, since his installation on March 9, 2014. A year later he was created Cardinal by Pope Francis.

Organization[]

The Archdiocese is subdivided into ten Pastoral Zones.

Bishops[]

List of Ordinaries of Montevideo[]

, OPraem (1830–1843)
Jacinto Vera y Durán (1859–1881)
Inocencio María Yéregui (1881–1890)
Mariano Soler (1891–1908)
Juan Francisco Aragone (1919–1940)
Antonio María Barbieri, OFM Cap (1940–1976) (Cardinal in 1958)
Carlos Parteli Keller (1976–1985)
José Gottardi Cristelli, SDB (1985–1998)
Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, SDB (1998–2014)
Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, SDB (2014 – ) (Cardinal in 2015)

Coadjutor archbishops[]

, O.F.M. Cap. (1936-1940); future Cardinal
Carlos Parteli Keller (1966-1976)

Auxiliary bishops[]

(1881), appointed Bishop here
(1891-1929)
(1893-1927)
(1958-1966), appointed Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este
(1962-1966), appointed Bishop of Tacuarembó
Andrés María Rubio Garcia, S.D.B. (1968-1975) appointed Bishop of Mercedes
José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. (1975-1985), appointed Archbishop here
Raúl Horacio Scarrone Carrero (1982-1987), appointed Bishop of Florid
(1986-1994), appointed Bishop of Canelones
Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J. (1988-1999), appointed Bishop of Melo
(2004-2008), appointed Bishop of Florida
Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio (2009-2018), appointed Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este
Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B. (2011-2014), appointed Archbishop here; future Cardinal
(2018-)
(2018-)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[]

, appointed Bishop of Mercedes in 1960
Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, appointed Bishop of Melo in 1962
Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer, appointed Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este in 1985
, appointed Bishop of Canelones in 2010

References[]

^ "Archdiocese of Montevideo". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
^ "Archdiocese of Montevideo". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2013-04-18.

External links[]

Official site
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Archdiocese of Montevideo" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Coordinates: 34°54′26″S 56°12′17″W / 34.9071°S 56.2046°W / -34.9071; -56.2046

[hierarchy-1] "Archdiocese of Montevideo". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 2013-04-18.

[GCatholic-2] "Archdiocese of Montevideo". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2013-04-18.

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