Archdiocese of Buenos Aires

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bonaerensis Arquidiócesis Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
Location
Country	Argentina
Territory	Buenos Aires
Ecclesiastical province	Buenos Aires
Statistics
Area	78 sq mi (200 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 2,917,000 2,671,000 (91.6%)
Parishes	186
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	6 April 1620
Cathedral	Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
Patron saint	Nuestra Señora del Buen Aire
Secular priests	471
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Archbishop	Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva
Auxiliary Bishops	Pedro Bernardo Cannavó Sergio Iván Dornelles Alejandro Daniel Giorgi Alejandro Daniel Pardo Joaquín Mariano Sucunza
Bishops emeritus	Mario Aurelio Poli
Map
Website
arzbaires.org.ar

The Archdiocese of Buenos Aires is an ecclesiastical constituency of the Catholic Church in Argentina.

It is a Latin archdiocese, metropolitan seat of the ecclesiastical province of Buenos Aires. Between 1936 and 2024 it was the primal seat of Argentina. On 13 March 2013, Cardinal Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope, taking the name of Francis. On 22 July 2024, the primatial see of Argentina was transferred to the Archdiocese of Santiago del Estero. The current archbishop, since 26 May 2023, is Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva.