Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo

History

• In 1826 Pope Leo XII founded the see as the Apostolic Vicariate of San Juan de Cuyo on territory taken from the Diocese of Córdoba del Tucumán.
• Pope Gregory XVI elevated it to a diocese on 19 September 1834.
• On 20 April 1934 it was elevated to a Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo / Sancti Ioannis de Cuyo by Pope Pius XI. On the same date it lost territory to create the dioceses of Mendoza and the suffragan Diocese of San Luis.

  Statistics

Ecclesiastical province

• Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja
• Roman Catholic Diocese of San Luis

  Bishops

Ordinaries

1. Justo Santa María de Oro, O.P.

1. Justo Santa María de Oro, O.P.
2. José Manuel Eufrasio de Quiroga Sarmiento
3. Nicolás Aldazor, O.F.M.
4. Venceslao Javier José Achával y Medina, O.F.M.
5. Marcellino Benavente, O.P.
6. José Américo Orzali

1. José Américo Orzali
2. Audino Rodríguez y Olmos
3. Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla, O.F.M. Cap.
4. Ítalo Severino Di Stéfano
5. Alfonso Delgado Evers
6. Jorge Eduardo Lozano

   Coadjutor archbishop

• Jorge Eduardo Lozano

  Auxiliary Bishops of San Juan de Cuyo

• José Hilarión de Etura y Cevallos, O.P.
• José Benito Salvador de la Reta, O.F.M.
• Juan José Marcos Zapata
• Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia
• Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla, O.F.M. Cap. , appointed Archbishop here
• Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R.

  Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Silvino Martínez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario in 1946
• Enrique Pechuán Marín, appointed Bishop of Cruz del Eje in 1963