- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba
The
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese, responsible for the dioceses of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Holguín and Santisimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo.The diocese's name was changed to the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba. It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seville in
Spain until12 February 1546 when it became a suffragan of the Diocese of Santo Domingo (nowArchdiocese of Santo Domingo ) in theDominican Republic . In 1803, the see was elevated to an archdiocese.Ordinaries
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Juan de Witte Hoos , O.P. (1517 - 1525)
*Sebastián de Salamanca (1525 - 1526)
*Miguel Ramírez de Salamanca , O.P. (1530 - 1534)
*Diego de Sarmiento , O. Cart. (1535 - 1544)
*Fernando de Uranga (1550 - 1556)
*Bernardino de Villalpando , C.R.S.A. (1561 - 1564)
*Gonzalo de Solorzano (1563 - 1565)
*Juan del Castillo (1567 - 1578)
*Juan Antonio Diaz de Salcedo , O.F.M. (1580 - 1597)
*Bartolomé de la Plaza , O.F.M. (1597 - 1602)
*Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1602 - 1610)
*Alonso Enríquez de Toledo y Armendáriz , O. de M. (1610 - 1624)
*Gregorio de Alarcón , O.S.A. (1623 - 1624)
*Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal (1625 - 1629)
*Jerónimo Manrique de Lara y de Herrera , O. de M. (1629 - 1644)
*Martín de Zelaya y Oláriz (1645 - 1649)
*Nicolás de la Torre Muñoz (1649 - 1653)
*Juan de Montiel (1655 - 1657)
*Pedro de Reina Maldonado (1659 - 1660)
*Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1661 - 1668)
*Alonso Bernardo de Ríos y Guzmán , O.SS.T. (1668 - 1671)
*Gabriel Díaz Vara Calderón (1671 - 1676)
*Juan Antonio García de Palacios (1677 - 1682)
*Baltasar de Figueroa , O. Cist. (1683 - 1684)
*Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela (1685 - 1704)
*Jerónimo de Valdés , O.S.Bas. (1705 - 1729)
*Francisco de Izarregui (1730 - 1730)
*Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo , O.S.A. (1730 - 1731)
*José Laso de la Vega y Cansino , O.F.M. (1731 - 1752)
*Pedro Agustín Morell de Santa Cruz y Lora (1753 - 1768)
*Santiago José Hechavarría y Elguezúa (1770 - 1788)
*Antonio Feliú y Centena (1789 - 1791)
*Joaquín de Osés y Alzúa (1792 - 1823)
*Mariano Rodríguez de Olmedo y Valle (1824 - 1831)
*Cirilo de Alameda y Brea , O.F.M. (1831 - 1849)
*St. Antonio María Claret y Clará, C.M.F. (1850 - 1859)
*Manuel María Negueruela Mendi (1859 - 1861)
*Primo Calvo y López (1861 - 1868)
*José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia (1875 - 1889)
*José María Cos y Macho (1889 - 1892)
*Francisco Sáenz de Urturi y Crespo , O.F.M. (1894 - 1899)
*Francisco de Paula Barnada y Aguilar (1899 - 1913)
*Felice Ambrogio Guerra Fezza , S.D.B. (1915 - 1925)
*Valentín Zubizarreta y Unamunsaga , O.C.D. (1925 - 1948)
*Enrique Pérez Serantes (1948 - 1968)
*Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu (1970 - 2007) - Archbishop Emeritus
*Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez (2007 - )Territorial losses
The see also gained territory in 1527 with the suppression of the Diocese of Concepción de la Vega.
External links and References
*cite web|title = Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba|work=Catholic-Hierarchy|url =http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dsncu.html|accessdate=2007-02-12
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