Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón is a Latin rite suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Minor Basilica : Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje, in Morón, Buenos Aires, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón partido, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.History
As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics on 130 km² in 53 parishes with 69 priests, 30 deacons, 86 lay religious and 5 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal Ordinaries
- Miguel Raspanti, Salesians , died 1991
- Justo Oscar Laguna, died 2011; previously Titular Bishop of Lares as Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of San Isidro
- Luis Guillermo Eichhorn, previously Bishop of Gualeguaychú
- Jorge Vázquez, previously Titular Bishop of Castra nova as Auxiliary Bishop of Lomas de Zamora , Coadjutor Bishop of Morón.
Coadjutor bishop
- Jorge Vázquez
Auxiliary bishops
- Fernando María Bargalló, appointed Bishop of Merlo-Moreno
- Carlos Walter Galán Barry, appointed Archbishop of La Plata
- Jorge Vázquez, appointed Coadjutor here
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Gerardo Tomás Farrell, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Quilmes in 1997
- José Antonio Gentico, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 2001
- Santiago Olivera, appointed Bishop of Cruz del Eje in 2008
- Gabriel Bernardo Barba, appointed Bishop of Gregorio de Laferrere in 2013
- Oscar Eduardo Miñarro, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Merlo-Moreno in 2016
- Fernando Miguel Gil Eisner, appointed Bishop of Salto, Uruguay in 2018
