Ramón Bogarín Argaña

He died suddenly on November 3, 1976 in the diocese of San Juan Bautista in Misiones, at 65 years old, as a result of a myocardial infarction.

He also served in the ecumenical work of the Church, especially in Latin America, speaking in 1965 on the establishment of the Episcopal Conference in Medellín, Colombia, consolidated later as CELAM, which was a subsidiary of the CEP, Paraguayan Episcopal Conference, of which he was the first secretary.

In 1957 the Vatican granted him the degree of primacy of the newly created Diocese of Misiones in Paraguay. He went to reside in San Juan Bautista in Misiones, where he consolidated the episcopal see. In this city he created a seminary, a parochial school and a model farm.

He created in 1940 the "Young Workers," and in the years of the totalitarian government of General Higinio Morínigo he founded and directed the weekly newspaper Trabajo, he edited in the Catholic Press, closed because of threats received from sectors loyal to the government in the hectic first half of the decade.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Canon Law and Master of Theology. He was ordained as a priest on April 16, 1938 in Rome, the following year he returned to his homeland.

In 1930 he took up residence in Asunción, where he was an officer candidate in the military movements prior to the Chaco War. In 1931 he posted as a student of the Faculty of Medicine, but a trip to Europe, organized by his family, interrupted his studies.

Ramón Bogarín Argaña (1911–1976) was a Paraguayan writer and bishop and keynote speaker of Paraguay. He was born in the Central Department of Ypacaraí, Paraguay on March 30, 1911 and died in San Juan Bautista, Department of Missions on November 3, 1976. was a bishop, a writer and keynote speaker of Paraguay.

He is from a line of missionaries, martyrs and heroes, among them San Roque Gonzalez of Santa Cruz, Amancio González y Escobar, towns founder and Francisco Javier Bogarín, independence leader and member of the Superior Governing Board of 1811.