Jehovah’s Witnesses in Argentina

Statistics

2016 Jehovah’s Witness average publishers: 150,052. Congregations: 2012. Baptisms: 4,199. Memorial attendance: 309,964. Preaching hours: 35.1 million.

Early History and Outreach

George Young, a Jehovah’s Witness from Canada, visited Argentina in 1923 after preaching in Brazil (Yearbook 2001). Young was an energetic preacher, and his efforts resulted in the free distribution of 1,480 books and over 300,000 Spanish-language tracts and pamphlets in 25 towns and cities of Argentina. In 1924, Juan Muñiz from Spain was assigned to serve in Argentina. Carlos Ott, a German minister, was sent to Argentina to preach to the large German-speaking population. Herman Seegelkin in Mendoza, Argentina, accepted the message in 1929 and began to preach to others. Nicolás Argyrós, a Greek convert, began preaching to Greek speaking to immigrants in Buenos Aires in 1930 (ibid). Argyrós stayed in homes of hospitable locals, often under the open sky, and once “in a barn with a burrow for an alarm...