Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese. Its suffragan sees include Añatuya, Concepción and Santiago del Estero.History
On 15 February 1897 Pope Leo XIII founded the Diocese of Tucumán from territory taken from the Diocese of Salta. Pope Pius XII elevated it to an archdiocese on 11 February 1957. It lost territory to the Diocese of Concepción when it was created in 1963.Bishops
Ordinaries
- Pedro Miguel Argandoña Pastene Salazar
- Pablo Padilla y Bárcena
- Barnabé Piedrabuena
- Agustín Barrere, F.M.I.
- Juan Carlos Aramburu, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires; future Cardinal
- Blas Victorio Conrero
- Horacio Alberto Bózzoli
- Raúl Arsenio Casado
- Luis Héctor Villalba
- Alfredo Zecca
- Carlos Alberto Sánchez
Coadjutor archbishop
- Carlos José Ñáñez, did not succeed to the see; appointed Archbishop of Córdoba
- Barnabé Piedrabuena, appointed Bishop of Catamarca
- Carlos Echenique Altamira
- Juan Carlos Aramburu, appointed Bishop here; future Cardinal
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Luis Urbanč, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Catamarca in 2006
- José Melitón Chávez, appointed Bishop of Añatuya in 2015
Territorial losses
