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Archdiocese of Montevideo

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Archdiocese of Montevideo
Archidioecesis Montisvidei
Arquidiócesis de Montevideo
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, St. Philip and St. James
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 		(as of 2004)
1,350,000
850,000 (63%)
Parishes 77
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 14 August 1832 (194 years ago)
Cathedral Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción y San Felipe y Santiago
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Archbishop Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B.
Auxiliary Bishops Luis Eduardo González Cedrés
Bishops emeritus Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, S.D.B.
Map
Website
www.arquidiocesis.net

The Archdiocese of Montevideo (Latin: Archidioecesis Montisvidei) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the 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, who was installed on 9 March 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

Coadjutor archbishops

Auxiliary bishops

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

See also

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church.[3]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Archdiocese of Montevideo — (MONTISVIDEI)

Located in Uruguay, comprises the whole of the republic. This territory was under the jurisdiction of the Paraguayan Church till 1620, when it became subject to Buenos Aires. In 1828 the Holy See erected it into a vicariate Apostolic. On 15 July, 1878, it was raised to episcopal rank, Mgr. Hyacinth Vera being first bishop; on 19 April, 1897, it was made an archdiocese. It was decided at that time to erect two suffragan sees, Melo and Saltó, but no appointments have yet been made (1910). Since colonial days ended, the Church has been persecuted at times, especially between 1880 and 1890 under Santos, who forbade religious under forty to make vows, instituted civil marriage, and made it a crime to baptise a child before its birth was registered civilly. To-day, however, the Church is flourishing, and the archdiocese contains many congregations of men (Jesuits, Capuchins, Redemptorists, Salesians, etc.), and over 300 nuns engaged in teaching and charitable work. The diocese contains 72,210 square miles, and about 1,103,000 inhabitants (in 1906), almost all Catholics, of whom 308,000 were in the Department of Montevideo. There are 46 parishes, 7 filial cures, 122 priests, and about 100 chapels and churches. The present occupant of the see is Mgr. Mariano Soler, born at San Carlo, Uruguay, 25 March, 1846; elected bishop, 29 June, 1891; consecrated archbishop, 19 April, 1897; he has two auxiliary bishops: Mgr. Ricardo Isasa (titular Bishop of Anemurium), born at Montevideo, 7 February, 1847; elected, 15 February, 1891; and Mgr. Pio Gaetano Secondo Stella (titular Bishop of Amizona), born at Paso del Molino, Uruguay, 7 August, 1857; elected, 22 December, 1893. Almost all the inhabitants are Catholics, there is, however, a small Piedmontese Waldensian agricultural colony in the East of Colonia.

Among the noteworthy buildings of the City of Montevideo may be mentioned the cathedral, begun in 1803, completed and restored in 1905; and the Jesuit, Redemptorist, and Franciscan churches. Within recent years conferences of St. Vincent de Paul have been established in all the city parishes; likewise an excellent Catholic club; and an institute for Catholic working-men. The city dates back to early in the seventeenth century; a small fort, San José, was built there in 1724; in January, 1728, the town was founded by Bruno de Zabala with the name San Felipe y Santiago; in 1807 it was captured by the British; in 1828 it became the capital of the republic; from 1842 to 1851 it withstood the nine years' siege by Oribe and his Argentine allies. Montevideo has within recent years grown to be one of the seven greatest seaports in the world (see URUGUAY). San José de Mayo (9000) contains a magnificent church, more massive than the cathedral; and also the college of the Sisters of Nuestra Señora del Huerto, which has a very pretty chapel attached. (For the early Uruguayan missions among the Indians see REDUCTIONS OF PARAGUAY.)

ARAÚJO, Geografia nacional (Montevideo, 1892); MULHALE, Handbook of the River Plate Republics (Buenos Aires, 1892); KEANE, Central and South America, I (London, 1809).

References

  1. Back to citation "Archdiocese of Montevideo". Catholic Hierarchy. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  2. Back to citation "Archdiocese of Montevideo". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
  3. Back to citation Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo, official website

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