Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca

Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca Archidioecesis Sinus Albi Arquidiócesis de Bahía Blanca
Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	Bahía Blanca
Statistics
Area	82,634 sq mi (214,020 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 743,000 635,000 (85.5%)
Parishes	56
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	20 April 1934 (83 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy in Bahía Blanca
Patron saint	Virgin of Mercy
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Guillermo José Garlatti
Coadjutor	Carlos Azpiroz Costa
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca (Archidioecesis Sinus Albi) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church with an ecclesiastical province in the eastern region of the national capital's province of Buenos Aires, central Argentina.

Its cathedral archiepiscopal see and mother church, located in the city of Bahía Blanca, is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy. Since 10 May 2003 Guillermo José Garlatti has been its Archbishop. Since 3 November 2015, Carlos Azpiroz Costa has been its Archbishop coadjutor.

As per 2015, the Archdiocese pastorally served 661,096 Catholics (83.3% of 793,517 total) on 82,624 km² in 55 parishes and 236 missions with 71 priests (45 diocesan, 26 religious), 27 deacons, 211 lay religious (44 brothers, 167 sisters) and 15 seminarians.

It covers the partidos (municipalities) of Adolfo Alsina, Adolfo González Chávez, Bahía Blanca, Coronel Dorrego, Coronel de Marina Leonardo Rosales, Coronel Pringles, Coronel Suárez, Daireaux, Guaminí, Monte Hermoso, Patagones, Puán, Saavedra, San Cayetano, Tornquist, Tres Arroyos and Villarino.

The Metropolitan Archdiocese has suffragan sees encompassing all of the administrative Provinces of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, notably :

(all Roman Rite)