Archdiocese of San Antonio Archidioecesis Sancti Antonii Arquidiócesis de San Antonio | |
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 San Fernando Cathedral | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Location | |
| Country |  United States |
| Territory | City of San Antonio and the following counties: Val Verde, Real, Edwards, Kerr, Gillespie, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Uvalde, Kinney, Medina, Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, Frio, Atascosa, and McMullen. |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province of San Antonio |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 27,841 sq mi (72,110 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2014) 2,458,351 728,001[1] (29.6%) |
| Parishes | 139 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | August 28, 1874 |
| Cathedral | San Fernando Cathedral |
| Patron saint | Saint Anthony of Padua[2] |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | Gustavo García-Siller |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Michael Joseph Boulette[3] Gary W. Janak |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| archsa.org | |
The Archdiocese of San Antonio (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Antonii) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. It encompasses 27,841 square miles (72,110 km2) in the U.S. state of Texas. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio had a self-reported 2018 population of 796,954, up from 728,001 in 2014. [4] The archdiocese includes the city of San Antonio and the following counties: Val Verde, Edwards, Real, Kerr, Gillespie, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Uvalde, Kinney, Medina, Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, Frio, Atascosa, Bandera County, and the portion of McMullen County north of the Nueces River.[5]
On August 28, 1874, the Diocese of Galveston was divided and the northern territory was canonically erected by the Holy See as the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Antonio. Originally part of the Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans, it was subsequently elevated on August 3, 1926, to a metropolitan archdiocese.[6][7]
The archbishop of San Antonio also serves as the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of San Antonio with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio overseeing the following suffragan dioceses: Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Laredo, Lubbock, and San Angelo. All of Texas' dioceses had been suffragan sees under San Antonio until December 2004 when Pope John Paul II created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston and elevated the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to a metropolitan see.[8]
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