Buenos Aires Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Religion=== [[File:Exterior_nocturno_de_la_catedral.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral|Metropolitan Cathedral]] is the main [[Catholic]] [[church architecture|church]] in the city.]] At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was the second-largest [[Catholic]] city in the world after [[Paris]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Catholicism and Politics in Argentina, 1810–1960|first=Austen |last=Ivereigh|year= 2016| isbn= 9781349136186| page =76 |publisher=Springer|quote= Buenos Aires was the second largest Catholic city in the world (after Paris)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Continent of Opportunity|first=Francis Edward |last=Clark|year= 1907| page =208|publisher=Princeton University Pree|quote= ... BUENOS AYRES second largest Roman Catholic city in the world, the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world...}}</ref> [[Christianity]] is still the most prevalently practiced religion in Buenos Aires (~71.4%),<ref name="CONICETReligion19"/> a 2019 [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council|CONICET]] survey on religious beliefs and attitudes found that the inhabitants of the [[Greater Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area]] (''Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires'', AMBA) were 56.4% [[Catholic]], 26.2% [[Irreligion|non-religious]] and 15% [[Evangelical]]; making it the region of the country with the highest proportion of irreligious people.<ref name="CONICETReligion19">{{cite web|url=http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ii25-2encuestacreencias.pdf|access-date=19 November 2019|year=2019|last1=Mallimac|last2=Giménez Béliveau|last3=Esquivel|last4=Irrazábal|first1=Fortunato|first2=Verónica|first3=Juan Cruz|first4=Gabriela|title=Sociedad y Religión en Movimiento. Segunda Encuesta Nacional sobre Creencias y Actitudes Religiosas en la Argentina|language=es|publisher=Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL). [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council|CONICET]]|issn=1515-7466|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111060444/http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ii25-2encuestacreencias.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> A previous CONICET survey from 2008 had found that 69.1% were Catholic, 18% "indifferent", 9.1% Evangelical, 1.4% [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] or [[Mormons]] and 2.3% adherents to other religions.<ref name="CONICETReligion08">{{cite web|url=http://www.ceil-conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/encuesta1.pdf|access-date=13 February 2020|year=2008|last1=Mallimac|last2=Esquivel|last3=Irrázabal|first1=Fortunato|first2=Juan Cruz|first3=Gabriela|title=Primera Encuesta Nacional sobre Creencias y Actitudes Religiosas en la Argentina|language=es|publisher=Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL). [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council|CONICET]]|archive-date=10 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010051330/http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2008/08/27/um/encuesta1.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The comparison between both surveys reveals that the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area is the region in which the decline of Catholicism was most pronounced during the last decade.<ref name="CONICETReligion19"/> Buenos Aires is also home to the [[Jewish population by country|largest Jewish community]] in Latin America and the second largest in the Western Hemisphere after the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/son-244000-los-judios-que-viven-en-la-ciudad-segun-un-censo-poblacional-nid710563|title=Son 244.000 los judíos que viven en la ciudad, según un censo poblacional|work=[[La Nación]]|language=es|access-date=13 February 2020|date=6 June 2005|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126042200/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/son-244000-los-judios-que-viven-en-la-ciudad-segun-un-censo-poblacional-nid710563/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The Jewish Population of Argentina: Census and Estimate, 1887–1947|date=October 1960|pages=195–214|last=Rosenswaike|first=Ira|journal=Jewish Social Studies|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|volume=22|issue=4|jstor = 4465819}}</ref> The Jewish community of Buenos Aires has historically been characterized by its high level of assimilation, organization and influence in the cultural history of the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.enlacejudio.com/2013/01/14/la-comunidad-judia-argentina/|title=La comunidad judía en Argentina|language=es|date=14 January 2013|access-date=13 February 2020|publisher=Enlace Judío|location=Mexico City|archive-date=14 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214003242/https://www.enlacejudio.com/2013/01/14/la-comunidad-judia-argentina/|url-status=live}}</ref> Buenos Aires is the seat of a Roman Catholic [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan archbishop]] (the Catholic [[primate (bishop)|''primate'']] of Argentina), currently Archbishop [[Mario Poli]]. His predecessor, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, was elected to the [[Papacy]] as [[Pope Francis]] on 13 March 2013. There are [[Protestant]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], [[Eastern Catholic]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] and various other religious minorities as well.<ref>{{cite news|title=Largest Mosque in Latin America Opens|url=http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Islam/2000/10/Largest-Mosque-In-Latin-America-Opens.aspx|publisher=[[Beliefnet]]|access-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055739/http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Islam/2000/10/Largest-Mosque-In-Latin-America-Opens.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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