Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba | |
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Location | |
Country | Cuba |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Santiago de Cuba |
Metropolitan | Santiago de Cuba |
Statistics | |
Area | 6,043 km2 (2,333 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 1,050,000 255,500 (24.3%) |
Parishes | 16 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 1518 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Dionisio García Ibáñez |
The Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba) (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a
suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province: Guantánamo-Baracoa, Holguín and Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo.[1][2]
Prior to elevation as a archdiocese, the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba was a suffragan of the
Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre
.
Bishops
- Diocese of Baracoa
Erected: 1518
- OP (1517–1525) Resigned[3]
- Diocese of Santiago de Cuba
Name Changed: 28 April 1522
Latin Name: Sancti Iacobi in Cuba
- Sebastián de Salamanca (1525–1526) Died[3]
- OP (1530–1534) Died[3]
- Diego de Sarmiento, OCart (1535–1544) Resigned[3]
- Fernando de Uranga (1550–1556) Died[3]
- Bernardino de Villalpando, CRSA (1561–1564) Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala[3]
- Juan del Castillo (bishop) (1564–1578) Resigned)[3]
- Juan Antonio Diaz de Salcedo, OFM (1580–1597) Appointed, Bishop of Nicaragua)[3]
- Bartolomé de la Plaza, OFM (1597–1602) Died[3][4]
- Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1602–1610) Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala[4]
- OdeM (1610–1624) Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán[4]
- Gregorio de Alarcón, OAD (1623–1624) Died[4]
- Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal (1625–1629) Appointed, Bishop of Guadalajara[4]
- OdeM (1629–1644) Died[4]
- Martín de Zelaya y Oláriz (1645–1649) Resigned[4]
- Nicolás de la Torre Muñoz (1649–1653) Died[4]
- Juan de Montiel (1655–1657) Died[4]
- consecrated[4]
- Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1661–1668) Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala[4]
- Gabriel Díaz Vara Calderón (1671–1676) Died[5]
- Juan Antonio García de Palacios (1677–1682) Died[5]
- Baltasar de Figueroa, OCist (1683–1684) Died[5]
- Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela (1685–1704) Died[5]
- Jerónimo Nosti de Valdés, OSBas (1705–1729) Died[5]
- Francisco de Izarregui (1730) Resigned
- Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo, OSA (1730–1731) Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona
- José Laso de la Vega y Cansino, OFM (1731–1752) Died
- Pedro Agustín Morell de Santa Cruz y Lora (1753–1768) Died
- Santiago José Echaverría Nieto de Osorio y Elguera (1770–1788) Appointed, Bishop of Tlaxcala)
- Antonio Feliú y Centena (1789–1791) Died
- Joaquín de Osés y Alzúa y Caparacio (1792–1823) Died
- Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
Elevated: 24 November 1803
- Mariano Rodríguez de Olmedo y Valle (1824–1831) died
- Cirilo de Alameda y Brea, OFM (1831–1849) died
- St. Antonio María Claret y Clará, CMF(1850–1859)
- Manuel María Negueruela Mendi (1859–1861) died
- Primo Calvo y López (1861–1868) died
- José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia (1875–1889) appointed, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
- José María Cos y Macho (1889–1892) appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Madrid
- Francisco Sáenz de Urturi y Crespo, OFM (1894–1899) resigned
- Francisco de Paula Barnada y Aguilar (1899–1913) died
- Felix Ambrosio Guerra, SDB (1915–1925) Resigned
- Valentín Zubizarreta y Unamunsaga, OCD (1925–1948) died
- Enrique Pérez Serantes (1948–1968) died
- Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu (1970–2007) retired
- Dionisio García Ibáñez (Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez) (2007–present)
Auxiliary bishops
- OSB(1705–1711)
- José Francisco Martínez de Tejada y Díez de Velasco, OFM (1732–1745), appointed Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México
- Pedro Ponce y Carrasco (1746–1762), appointed Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
- Santiago José Hechavarría y Elguesúa (1768–1769), appointed Bishop here
- Francisco Antonio Pablo Sieni Flannings, OFMCap (1784–1787), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
- Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu (1967–1970), appointed Archbishop here
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas, appointed Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans), USA in 1794
- Carlos Riu Anglés, appointed Bishop of Camagüey in 1948
- Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cienfuegos in 1969
- Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana in 1991
- Silvano Herminio Pedroso Montalvo, appointed Bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa in 2018
Territorial losses
Year | Along with | To form |
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1787 | Diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana | |
1912 | Diocese of Camagüey | |
1979 | Diocese of Holguín | |
1995 | Diocese of Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo | |
1998 | Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa |
The see also gained territory in 1527 with the suppression of the Diocese of Concepción de la Vega.
External links and references
- ^ "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 19, 2016
- ^ "Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 19, 2016
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 182. (in Latin)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 206. (in Latin)
- ^ a b c d e f Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 225. (in Latin)
- "Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
- Havana puts on New Face for Pope[permanent dead link] by Phillip True, Express News, January 21, 1998