Territorial Prelature of Cafayate Territorialis Praelatura Cafayatensis Prelatura Territorial de Cafayate |
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
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Location | |
Country | Argentina |
Ecclesiastical province | Salta |
Metropolitan | Salta |
Statistics | |
Area | 40,000 km2 (15,000 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 54,625 53,194 (97.4%) |
Parishes | 7 |
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Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 8 September 1969 (211 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Cafayate |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Prelate | Mariano Moreno Garcia, O.S.A. |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Mario Antonio Cargnello |
Emeritus Bishops | Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A. |
The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Cafayatensis) is in Argentina and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salta.
On 8 September 1969, Pope Paul VI established the Territorial Prelature of Cafayate from territory taken from the Diocese of Catamarca and the Archdiocese of Salta.