Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba

Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba

Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba
Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Location
CountryCuba
Ecclesiastical provinceProvince of Santiago de Cuba
MetropolitanSantiago de Cuba
Statistics
Area6,043 km2 (2,333 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2010)
1,050,000
255,500 (24.3%)
Parishes16
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established1518
CathedralCathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopDionisio García Ibáñez

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba) (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Cuba. It is a metropolitan see with four 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 Archdiocese of Seville in Spain until 12 February 1546 when it became a suffragan of the Diocese of Santo Domingo (now Archdiocese of Santo Domingo) in the Dominican Republic. In 1803, the see was elevated to an archdiocese. The archdiocese is the home of the Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre.

  1. ^ "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 19, 2016
  2. ^ "Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 19, 2016