Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana
| Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Cuba |
| Diocesan bishop | Juan Cardinal García Rodríguez |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Alfredo Petit Vergel |
| founding | 1787 |
| surface | 7,542 km² |
| Parishes | 85 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Residents | 2,724,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics | 2,614,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| proportion of | 96% |
| Diocesan priest | 46 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 70 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 22,534 |
| Permanent deacons | 26 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Friars | 92 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 200 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de San Cristóbal |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Matanzas Diocese of Pinar del Río |
The Archdiocese of San Cristobal de la Habana ( lat. : Archidioecesis Avanensis ) is an on Cuba situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Havana .
history
The Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana was founded on September 10, 1787 by Pope Pius VI. from the cession of territory by the diocese of Santiago de Cuba as the diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo as a suffragan . On April 25, 1793, the diocese gave parts of its territory establishing the diocese of Louisiana and two Floridas . Further territorial assignments took place on February 20, 1903 to establish the dioceses of Pinar del Río and Cienfuegos . The diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana gave up on December 10, 1912 parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Matanzas .
The diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana was founded on January 6, 1925 by Pope Pius XI. with the Apostolic Constitution Inter praecipuas raised to the archbishopric.
The archbishopric is the sponsor of the Félix Varela Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Padre Félix Varela) , which was opened in 2011, and is a church-based study facility that is also open to laypeople and is based in Old Havana . A prominent project of the cultural center is the quarterly magazine Espacio Laical , which is devoted to topics of social renewal, also takes up political debates from different points of view, but unlike the other media published in Cuba is not subject to the censorship of the Communist Party of Cuba .
Ordinaries
Bishops of San Cristóbal de la Habana
- Felipe José de Tres-Palacios y Verdeja , 1789–1799
- Juan José Díaz de Espada y Fernández de Landa , 1800-1832
- Francisco Fleix Soláus , 1846–1864, then Archbishop of Tarragona
- Jacinto Maria Martínez y Sáez OFMCap , 1865–1873
- Apolinar Serrano y Díaz , 1875–1876
- Ramón Fernández Piérola y Lopez de Luzuriaca , 1879–1887, then Bishop of Ávila
- Manuel Santander y Frutos , 1887–1899
- Donato Raffaele Sbarretti Tazza , 1900–1901, then Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines
- Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada , 1903-1925
Archbishops of San Cristóbal de la Habana
- José Manuel Dámaso Rúiz y Rodríguez , 1925–1940
- Manuel Cardinal Arteaga , 1941–1963
- Evelio Díaz Cía , 1963-1970
- Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández , 1970–1981
- Cardinal Jaime Ortega , 1981-2016
- Juan Cardinal García Rodríguez , since 2016
See also
Web links
- Entry for the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Archdiocese site (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Inaugurado el Centro Cultural "Padre Félix Varela". Report on the website of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of September 28, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ Quienes Somos. Espacio Laical website , accessed November 6, 2013 (Spanish)