ABSTRACT
The population of Argentina is largely Catholic, but all other main religious denominations are present, some since the early nineteenth century.
In 1853 the country obtained a lasting and foundational Constitution. One of the greatest concerns of its framers was to attract useful (European) immigrants, especially bearing in mind the British, German, Dutch, and others to whom freedom of worship should be guaranteed. The preamble of the Constitution invites “all men of the world who wish to dwell on Argentine soil” and ends by “invoking the protection of God, source of all reason and justice.” At the same time, the framers reached a compromise solution on church-state relations, by which Article 2 determines that the federal government supports the worship of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church.
