Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba

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Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
Map of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
Basic data
Country Cuba
Diocesan bishop Dionisio García Ibáñez
surface 6,154 km²
Parishes 16 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Residents 1,057,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 256,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 24.2%
Diocesan priest 14 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 11 (12/31/2015 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 10,240
Permanent deacons 2 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Friars 19 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 29 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa
Diocese of Holguín
Diocese of Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba ( latin Archidioecesis Sancti Jacobi in Cuba , Spanish Arquidiócesis de Santiago de Cuba ) is an on Cuba situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Santiago de Cuba .

history

Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Cathedral in Santiago de Cuba

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba was established in 1518 by Pope Leo X. with the Apostolic Constitution Super specula from cession of territory from the Diocese of Santo Domingo as the Diocese of Baracoa and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Seville as a suffragan . The diocese of Baracoa was renamed the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba on April 28, 1522 . In 1527 the territory of the dissolved diocese Concepción de la Vega was annexed to the diocese of Santiago de Cuba . The diocese of Santiago de Cuba was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo as a suffragan on February 12, 1546. On September 10, 1787, the diocese of Santiago de Cuba gave up parts of its territory to establish the diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana .

The diocese of Santiago de Cuba was raised to an archbishopric on November 24, 1803 by Pope Pius VII with the Apostolic Constitution In universalis Ecclesiae regimine . On December 10, 1912, the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Camagüey . Another assignment of territory took place on January 8, 1979 to establish the Holguín diocese . The Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba announced on December 9, 1995 parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution Venerable Brother erected diocese Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo from. Another transfer of territory on 24 January 1998 founding of the Apostolic Constitution Spirituali christifidelium erected Diocese of Guantanamo-Baracoa .

In the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba is Cuba's most popular Marian shrine, Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Salvador Miranda : Catálogo cronológico por diócesis. In: Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba. fiu.edu , Florida International University website (Spanish).;
  2. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Venerabilis Frater , AAS 88 (1996), n.3, p. 231f.
  3. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Spirituali Christifidelium , AAS 90 (1998), n.3, p. 195f.