Emilio Ogñénovich

{{Short description|Argentine Catholic bishop}}

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| name = Emilio Ogñénovich

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| title = Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján

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| archdiocese = Mercedes-Luján

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| see = Mercedes-Luján

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| appointed = 8 June 1982

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| term_start = 10 June 1982

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| term_end = 7 March 2000

| predecessor = Luis Juan Tomé

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| successor = Rubén Héctor di Monte

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| ordination = 17 December 1949

| ordained_by = Anunciado Serafini

| consecration = 18 November 1979

| consecrated_by = Jorge Mayer

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|01|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Olavarría, Argentina

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|01|29|1923|01|25|df=yes}}

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| nationality = Argentinian

| religion = Roman Catholic

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| previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Auxiliary Bishop of Bahía Blanca (1979–1982)|Titular Bishop of Mibiarca (1979–1982)}}

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| ordained priest by = Anunciado Serafini (Mercedes)

| date of priestly ordination = 17 December 1949

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| consecrated by = Jorge Mayer (Bahía Blanca)

| co-consecrators = Alejo Benedicto Gilligan (Nueve de Julio
Rómulo García (Mar del Plata)

| date of consecration = 18 November 1979

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| bishop 1 = Herberto Celso Angelo

| consecration date 1 = 19 March 1991

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Emilio Ogñénovich (January 25, 1923 – January 29, 2011) was the Catholic bishop of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján, Argentina. Ogñénovich was born to a father from Cetinje and a mother "from Zadar or Split"; they both died when he was ten years old.{{Cite news |last=Dragićević |first=Huanita |year=2007 |title=Siguran sam da je Gospa ovdje prisutna |language=hr-ba |edition=4 |page=28 |work=Glasnik mira |editor-last=Šego |editor-first=Krešimir |url=http://www.medjugorje.hr/files/file/glasnik-mira/glasnik-4-2007.pdf |access-date=27 January 2023 |issn=1840-1414}} Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Ogñénovich was named in bishop in 1979 retiring in 2000.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bogn.html Catholic Hierarchy profile] He died in 2011, four days after his 88th birthday.

On 27 June 1992 he was co-consecrator of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later Pope Francis, as bishop.{{cite web|title=Bergoglio, Jorge Mario|url=http://www.aica.org/guia-s-T2Jpc3Bvcw==-91|work=Breve biografía de obispos|publisher=La Agencia Informativa Católica Argentina|accessdate=15 March 2013|language=es|archive-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312140844/http://www.aica.org/guia-s-T2Jpc3Bvcw==-91|url-status=dead}}