The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Gallegos, Argentina, according to the Vatican Information Service

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 (VIS) has an area of 265,614 square miles, a total population of 300,000, a Catholic population of 210,000, 55 priests, 9 permanent deacons, and 94 religious. It was erected in 1961, and was formed from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia

Roman Catholic Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia

-Ordinaries:* Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava S.D.B.* Eugenio Santiago Peyrou S.D.B.* Argimiro Daniel Moure Piñeiro S.D.B. * Pedro Luis Ronchino S.D.B. * Virginio Domingo Bressanelli S.C.I....

, Argentina. It is a suffragan see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bahia Blanca, Argentina. His Excellency

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, the Most Reverend

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 Bishop

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 Juan Carlos Romanin, S.D.B.

Salesians of Don Bosco

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, is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Gallegos, since his installation in 2005. On Saturday, February 19, 2011, the Vatican Information Service stated that Pope Benedict XVI

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 had named the Right Reverend

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 Monsignor

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 Miguel Angel D'Annibale, until then the Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Isidro

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, as an Auxiliary Bishop

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-elect (assistant bishop) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rio Gallegos to Bishop Romanin, with the title of Titular Bishop of Nasai (in Numidia). The Auxiliary Bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1959, and was ordained a priest in 1985.

Ordinaries

• Mauricio Eugenio Magliano, S.D.B.
  Salesians of Don Bosco
  The Salesians of Don Bosco is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in an attempt, through works of charity, to care for the young and poor children of the industrial revolution...
  
  (1961–1974)
• Miguel Angel Alemán Eslava, S.D.B.
  Salesians of Don Bosco
  The Salesians of Don Bosco is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in an attempt, through works of charity, to care for the young and poor children of the industrial revolution...
  
  (1975–1992)
• Alejandro Antonio Buccolini, S.D.B.
  Salesians of Don Bosco
  The Salesians of Don Bosco is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in an attempt, through works of charity, to care for the young and poor children of the industrial revolution...
  
   (1992–2005)
• Juan Carlos Romanin S.D.B.
  Salesians of Don Bosco
  The Salesians of Don Bosco is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in the late nineteenth century by Saint John Bosco in an attempt, through works of charity, to care for the young and poor children of the industrial revolution...
  
  (2005 - )