Enrique Eguía Seguí (born 9 December 1962) is an Argentine

prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'pre ...

of the

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. He has been auxiliary bishop of

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since 2008.

Life

Born in

, Eguía was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

to the priesthood on 3 December 1988. On 4 September 2008, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of

and

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. Eguía received his

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on the following October 11 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later

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, with auxiliary Bishops Óscar Vicente Ojea Quintana, auxiliary of Buenos Aires, and

Carlos María Franzini Carlos María Franzini (September 6, 1951 – December 8, 2017) was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Rafaela from 2000 until 2012, when he became archbishop of Mendoza. Life Born in Buenos Aires, he was ordained ...

Rafaela Rafaela () is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, about 96 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Castellanos Department. It has a population of 99,150 per the . The city was established in 1881 by Guillerm ...

as co-consecrators.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eguia Segui, Enrique 1962 births 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Argentina Living people Roman Catholic bishops of Buenos Aires