Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

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Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Guatemala Arquidiócesis de Santiago de Guatemala


Location
Country	Guatemala
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Santiago de Guatemala
Population - Catholics	3,486,000 (80%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	December 18, 1534
Cathedral	Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of St. James
Patron saint	Assumption of Mary, Saint James the Greater
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.
Auxiliary Bishops	Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes José Cayetano Parra Novo

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. It is a primatial metropolitan see with six suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province.

Special churches

Its cathedral is the Catedral Primada Metropolitana de Santiago, is the episcopal see in the national capital Ciudad de Guatemala.

It also has

the former Cathedral, a World Heritage Site: Catedral de San José, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez
a Minor Basilica, National Shrine: Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
other National Shrine: Iglesia de San Francisco el Grande, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez
further Shrines: Santuario Arquidiocesano del Señor San José, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala and Santuario Expiatorio al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala

History

It was erected 18 December 1534, as the Diocese of Guatemala, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Santo Domingo.
On 21 June 1561 territory was ceded to establish the Diocese of Vera Paz
It was elevated to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala on 16 December 1743.
It lost territory repeatedly: on 28 September 1842, to establish the then Diocese of San Salvador, on 27 July 1921, to establish the then Roman Catholic Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos (now also a metropolitan archdiocese) and the then Apostolic Vicariate of Verapaz and Petén, on 10 March 1951, to establish the dioceses of Jalapa (its suffragan), Sololá and the Zacapa, on 9 May 1969, to establish the Territorial Prelature of Escuintla, and on 27 April 1996, to establish its suffragan Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima.
Papal visits were undertaken by Pope John Paul II in March 1983, February 1996 and July 2002.
The Archdiocese was renamed as the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala on 23 April 2013.

Province

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archbishopric and the following suffragan bishoprics :

Episcopal ordinaries

Bishops of Guatemala

Francisco Marroquin Hurtado (1523–1563)
Bernardino de Villalpando, C.R.S.A. (1564–1569)
Pedro Gómez de Córdoba, O.S.H. (1574–1598)
Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. (1600–1609)
Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1610–1615)
Pedro de Valencia (1615–1617) appointed Bishop of La Paz
Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. (1621–1630)
Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia (1630–1641)
Bartolomé González Soltero (1641–1650)
Juan Garcilaso de la Vega (1652–1657)
Payo Enríquez de Rivera Manrique, O.S.A. (1657–1668)
Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1668–1675)
Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño (1675–1682)
Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo, O. de M. (1682–1702)
Mauro de Larreátegui y Colón, O.S.B. (1703–1711)
Juan Bautista Álvarez de Toledo, O.F.M. (1713–1723)
Nicolás Carlos Gómez de Cervantes y Velázquez de la Cadena (1723–1726)
Juan Leandro Gómez de Parada Valdez y Mendoza (1728–1735)
Pedro Pardo de Figueroa, O.M. (1735–1743 see below)

Archbishops of Guatemala

Pedro Pardo de Figueroa, O.M. (see above 1743–1751)
Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria (1752–1765)
Pedro Cortés y Larraz (1766–1779)
Cayetano Francos y Monroy (1778–1792)
Juan Félix de Villegas (1793–1800)
Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas (1801–1805)
Rafael de La Vara (1806–1809)
Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, O.P. (1815–1845)
Francisco de Paul García Peláez (1845–1867)
José Bernardo Piñol y Aycinena (1867–1881)
Ricardo Casanova y Estrada (1886–1913)
Julio Ramón Riveiro y Jacinto, O.P. (1914–1921)
Luis Javier Muñoz y Capurón, S.J. (1921–1927)
Luis Durou y Sure, C.M. (1928–1938)
Mariano Rossell y Arellano (1939–1964)
Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1964–1983); elevated to Cardinal in 1969
Próspero Penados del Barrio (1983–2001)
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (2001–2010); elevated to Cardinal in 2003
Óscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. (2010 – April 25, 2013 see below)

Archbishops of Santiago de Guatemala

Óscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. (see above April 25, 2013 – February 24, 2018)
Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J. (July 9, 2020 – present)

Coadjutor bishops

Fernando Ortiz de Hinojosa (1598); did not take effect
Francisco de Paul García Peláez (1843–1845)
Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1963–1964); future Cardinal

Auxiliary bishops

Miguel Cilieza y Velasco (1765–1767), appointed Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas)
Antonio Larrazábal (1839–1846), never consecrated
Juan Félix de Jesús Zepeda, O.F.M. Obs. (1859–1861), appointed Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras
Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (1859–1865)
osé María Barrutia y Croquer (1859–1864)
Emmanuele Francesco Barrutia y Croquer (1865–1879)
Miguel Angel García y Aráuz (1944–1951), appointed Bishop of Jalapa
Rafael González Estrada (1955–1984)
Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1958–1963), appointed Coadjutor here; future Cardinal
José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa (1967–2010)
James Richard Ham, M.M. (1967–1979)
Luis Mario Martínez de Lejarza Valle, S.J. (1968–1980)
Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte (1980–1982), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sololá
Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti (1982–1984), appointed Bishop of San Marcos
Juan José Gerardi Conedera (1984–1998)
Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M. (1987–2010)
Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J. (2004–2007), appointed Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango
Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández (2004–2016)
Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes (2007–)
José Cayetano Parra Novo, O.P. (2016–)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Jorge de Viteri y Ungo, appointed Bishop of San Salvador in 1843
José Cándido Piñol y Batres, appointed Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua in 1913
Jorge García Caballeros, appointed Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos in 1928
Pablo Vizcaíno Prado, appointed Bishop of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu in 1996
Victor Hugo Palma Paúl, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla in 2001
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, appointed Bishop of San Marcos in 2008; elevated as Cardinal in 2019
Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez, appointed Bishop of San Marcos in 2014

Churches

Iglesia Católica Sagrado Corazón de Jesus, Guatemala City
Iglesia de Cristo Pinares del Nort

References

"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
"Archdiocese of Santiago de " Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved December 10, 2024
^ Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 207. (in Latin)
"Bishop Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
"Bishop Pedro de Valencia" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
"Bishop Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
"Bishop Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia " Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
"Bishop Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 21, 2016
"Bishop Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo, O. de M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016.

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