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Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba, links=no) (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a

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, responsible for the dioceses of Guantánamo-Baracoa,

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and Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo."Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago"
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''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 19, 2016 The diocese's name was changed to the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba. It was a suffragan of the

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in Spain until 12 February 1546 when it became a suffragan of the Diocese of Santo Domingo (now

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) in the

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. In 1803, the see was elevated to an archdiocese. The archdiocese is the home of the

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Bishops

;''Diocese of Baracoa'' ''Erected: 1518'' * Juan de Witte Hoos, O.P. (1517–1525) Resigned ''(in Latin)'' ;''Diocese of Santiago de Cuba'' ''Name Changed: 28 April 1522''
''Latin Name: Sancti Iacobi in Cuba'' ;''Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba'' ''Elevated: 24 November 1803'' * Mariano Rodríguez de Olmedo y Valle (1824–1831) Died *

Cirilo de Alameda y Brea Cirilo de Alameda y Brea O.F.M. Obs. (9 July 1781, in Torrejón de Velasco, Spain – 30 June 1872, in Toledo) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was archbishop of Toledo 1857–1867. Life He had worked as a priest in Urugu ...

, O.F.M. (1831–1849) Died * St. Antonio María Claret y Clará, C.M.F. (1850–1859) * Manuel María Negueruela Mendi (1859–1861) Died * Primo Calvo y López (1861–1868) Died *

José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia (26 August 1835 in Aldeadávila de la Ribera, Spain – 8 December 1922 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain) was a long-serving cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church in the early years of the twenti ...

(1875–1889) Appointed,

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Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu (February 23, 1932 in San Luis, Santiago de Cuba – July 21, 2011 in Miami, Florida USA) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Ordained to the priesthood on Ju ...

(1970–2007) Retired * (Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez) (2007–present)

Auxiliary bishops

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, O.S.B. (1705-1711) *

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, O.F.M. (1732-1745), appointed Bishop of Yucatán (Mérida), México * Pedro Ponce y Carrasco (1746-1762), appointed Bishop of Quito, Ecuador * Santiago José Hechavarría y Elguesúa (1768-1769), appointed Bishop here *

Francisco Antonio Pablo Sieni Flannings Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco (name), Paco". Francis of Assisi, San Francisco de Asís was known as '' ...

, O.F.M. Cap. (1784-1787), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana *

(1967-1970), appointed Archbishop here

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas (3 April 1749 – 17 July 1810) was a Cuban Catholic Bishop of New Orleans, and Archbishop of Guatemala. Biography He was born in Havana, the son of a wealthy and noble family. After studying belles-l ...

, appointed Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans), USA in 1794 *

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, appointed Bishop of Camagüey in 1948 *

Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández Francisco Ricardo Oves-Fernandez (October 4, 1928 in Camagüey, Cuba – December 4, 1990 in El Paso, Texas, US) was the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana. He studied in the Seminary of San Basilio Magno, El Cobre, Oriente, Cuba. He ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cienfuegos in 1969 * Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana in 1991 * Silvano Herminio Pedroso Montalvo, appointed Bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa in 2018

Territorial losses

The see also gained territory in 1527 with the suppression of the Diocese of Concepción de la Vega.

External links and references

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Havana puts on New Face for Pope
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Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains t ...

1518 establishments in the Spanish Empire