Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo

Archdiocese of Montevideo Archidioecesis Montisvidei Arquidiócesis de Montevideo

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, St. Philip and St. James
Location
Country	Uruguay
Ecclesiastical province	Montevideo
Statistics
Area	540 km² (210 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 1,350,000 850,000 (63%)
Parishes	77
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	14 August 1832 (191 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción y San Felipe y Santiago
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B.
Auxiliary Bishops	Luis Eduardo González Cedrés
Bishops emeritus	Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, S.D.B.
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Website
www.arquidiocesis.net

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montevideo (Latin: Archidioecesis Montisvidei) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic church in Uruguay.

History

Erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Montevideo by Pope Gregory XVI on 14 August 1832, the vicariate was promoted to the Diocese of Montevideo on 13 July 1878 by Pope Leo XIII. It was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on 14 April 1897.^[1]^[2]

Montevideo is the only archdiocese in Uruguay and its archbishop is thus seen as leader of the Uruguayan Church. The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is the Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral.

The current archbishop of Montevideo is Daniel Sturla, SDB, who was installed on 9 March 2014. A year later he was created Cardinal by Pope Francis.

The Archdiocese is subdivided into ten Pastoral Zones.

Pedro Alcántara Jiménez, OPraem (1830–1843)
Jacinto Vera y Durán (1859–1881)
Inocencio María Yéregui (1881–1890)
Mariano Soler (1891–1908)
Juan Francisco Aragone (1919–1940)
Antonio María Barbieri, OFM Cap (1940–1976) (Cardinal in 1958)
Carlos Parteli Keller (1976–1985)
José Gottardi Cristelli, SDB (1985–1998)
Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, SDB (1998–2014)
Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, SDB (2014 – ) (Cardinal in 2015)

Innocenzo María Yéregui (1881), appointed Bishop here
Ricardo Isaza y Goyechea (1891-1929)
Pio Gaetano Secondo Stella (1893-1927)
Antonio Corso (1958-1966), appointed Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este
Miguel Balaguer (1962-1966), appointed Bishop of Tacuarembó
Andrés María Rubio Garcia, S.D.B. (1968-1975) appointed Bishop of Mercedes
José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. (1975-1985), appointed Archbishop here
Raúl Horacio Scarrone Carrero (1982-1987), appointed Bishop of Florid
Orlando Romero Cabrera (1986-1994), appointed Bishop of Canelones
Luis del Castillo Estrada, S.J. (1988-1999), appointed Bishop of Melo
Martín Pablo Pérez Scremini (2004-2008), appointed Bishop of Florida
Milton Luis Tróccoli Cebedio (2009-2018), appointed Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este
Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B. (2011-2014), appointed Archbishop here; future Cardinal
Luis Eduardo González Cedrés (2018-)
Pablo Alfonso Jourdán Alvariza (2018-)

Enrico Lorenzo Cabrera Urdangarin, appointed Bishop of Mercedes in 1960
Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, appointed Bishop of Melo in 1962
Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer, appointed Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este in 1985
Alberto Francisco María Sanguinetti Montero, appointed Bishop of Canelones in 2010