Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos Dioecesis Sancti Nicolai de los Arroyos Diócesis de San Nicolás de los Arroyos | |
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 Cathedral of St. Nicholas of Bari | |
| Location | |
| Country | Argentina |
| Ecclesiastical province | Rosario |
| Metropolitan | Rosario |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 14,500 km2 (5,600 sq mi) |
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| Parishes | 51 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 3 March 1947 (78 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St Nicholas of Myra inSan Nicolás de los Arroyos |
| Patron saint | Saint Nicholas |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | Hugo Norberto Santiago |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Eduardo Eliseo Martín |
| Website | |
| Website of the Diocese | |
TheRoman Catholic Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos is based in the city ofSan Nicolás de los Arroyos, which is usually shortened to San Nicolás, and is a suffragan of the archdiocese ofRosario,Argentina.
On 3 March 1947,Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos from territory taken from theDiocese of La Plata and theDiocese of Mercedes. It lost territory to theDiocese of San Isidro when it was created in 1957 and theDiocese of Zárate-Campana in 1976.[1][2]
The diocesan seat, the Cathedral of St Nicholas of Myra, was home to a neglected statue of Our Lady of the Rosary that had been blessed by Pope Leo XIII. The statue was rediscovered after an image of Our Lady appeared in a vision to a local lay woman mother-of-two Gladys Motta, leading to a renewed devotion under the titleOur Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás and the erection of a new Sanctuary with hostel for pilgrims and a center for promoting popular piety.[3] In a decree signed on May 22, 2016 and made public a few days later, Héctor Cardelli, Bishop of the Diocese of San Nicolás, declared that the apparitions that occurred over a number of years beginning in the 1980s were supernatural in origin. The devotion is thus approved "worthy of belief" at the Diocesan level within the Catholic Church.[4][5]