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Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón

Diocese of Morón
Dioecesis Moronensis
Diócesis de Morón
Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje.jpg
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception of the Good Journey
Location
Country Argentina
Ecclesiastical province Buenos Aires
Metropolitan Buenos Aires
Statistics
Area 130 km2 (50 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
655,000
511,737 (78%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established 11 February 1957 (60 years ago)
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Morón
Patron saint Immaculate Conception
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Luis Guillermo Eichhorn
Metropolitan Archbishop Mario Aurelio Poli

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón is and is a Latin rite suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Its cathedral episcopal see is a Minor Basilica : Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje, in Morón, Buenos Aires, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón partido, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics (90.7% of 732,000 total) on 130 km² in 53 parishes with 69 priests (53 diocesan, 16 religious), 30 deacons, 86 lay religious (25 brothers, 61 sisters) and 5 seminarians.



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