Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Panamá
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá Archidioecesis Metropolitanae Panamensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Panama |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Panamá |
Statistics | |
Area | 13,275 km2 (5,126 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2004) 704,117 633,705 (90%) |
Parishes | 88 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 28 August 1513 (508 years ago) |
Cathedral | Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta |
Bishops emeritus | |
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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá (erected 28 August 1513 as the Diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese, and its suffragan dioceses include Chitré, Colón-Kuna Yala, David, Penonomé and Santiago de Veraguas, as well as the Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro.[1][2] The Diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién was originally located upriver from the mouth of the Atrato River on the Gulf of Urabá in the Castilla de Oro province.[3] The see was moved to Panama City and renamed as the Diocese of Panamá on 7 December 1520 and elevated to an archdiocese on 29 November 1925. The current Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama is Archbishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Bishops[]
Ordinaries[]
- Diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién
Erected August 28, 1513
- Juan de Quevedo Villegas, O.F.M. (1513–1519)[4]
- Diocese of Panamá
- Vicente de Peraza, O.P. (1520–1526)[4]
- Martin de Bejar, O.F.M. (1527–1530)[4]
- Vicente de Valverde, O.P. (1533–)[4]
- Tomás de Berlanga, O.P. (1534–1537)[4]
- Pablo de Torres, O.P. (1546–1560)[4]
- Juan de Vaca, O.S.B. (1561–1565)[4]
- Francisco de Abrego O.S. (1566–1574)[4]
- Manuel de Mercado Aldrete, O.S.H. (1576–1580)[4]
- Bartolomé de Ledesma, O.P. (1580–1583), Appointed Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca[4]
- Bartolomé Martinez Menacho y Mesa (1587–1593), Appointed Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada[4]
- Pedro Duque de Rivera, S.J. (1594–1594)[5]
- Antonio Calderón de León (1598–1605), Appointed Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra[5]
- Agustín de Carvajal, O.S.A. (1605–1612), Appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga[5]
- Francisco de la Cámara y Raya, O.P. (1612–1624)[5]
- Cristóbal Martínez de Salas, O. Praem. (1625–1640)[5]
- Hernando de Ramírez y Sánchez, O.SS.T. (1640–1652)[5]
- Bernardo de Izaguirre de los Reyes (1654–1660), Appointed Bishop of Cuzco[5]
- Bishop-elect Diego López de Vergara y Aguilar (1662–)[6]
- Sancho Pardo Cárdenas y Figueroa (1667–1671)[5]
- Antonio de León y Becerra (1671–1676), Appointed Bishop of Trujillo[7]
- Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita (1677–1688)[7]
- Diego Ladrón de Guevara (1689–1699)[7]
- Juan de Argüelles O.S.A. (1699–1711), Appointed Bishop of Arequipa[7]
- , O.C. (1714–1719)[7]
- , O.C. (1720–1725)[7]
- (1725–1731)[7]
- (1731–1741)
- , O.S.A. (1741–1741)
- (1742–1749)
- (1749–1750)
- (1750–1750)
- , O. de M. (1750–1751)
- (1751–1758)
- (1758–1763)
- (1763–1770)
- , O.P. (1770–1776)
- (1777–1791)
- (1792–1797)
- (1797–1813)
- , C.O. (1814–1815)
- , O. de M. (1816–1823)
- (1835–1847)
- (1847–1850)
- , O.P. (1856–1869)
- (1870–1875)
- José Telésforo Paúl, S.J. (1875–1884)
- (1886–1899)
- , S.J. (1901–1911)
- , C.M. (1912–1933)
- Archdiocese of Panamá
Elevated: 29 November 1925
- , C.M.F. (1933–1943)
- , C.M.F. (1945–1963)
- (1964–1968)
- , C.S.C. (1969–1994)
- José Dimas Cedeño Delgado (1994–2010); Archbishop Emeritus
- Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A. (2010–present)
Coadjutor bishop[]
- (1845-1847)
Auxiliary bishops[]
- , C.M.F. (1932-1933), appointed Archbishop here
- , C.M. (1940-1945), appointed Archbishop here
- , C.S.C. (1961-1964), appointed Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas (later returned here as Archbishop0
- , S.V.D. (1965-1986), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of David
- José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R. (1985-1994), appointed Bishop of Chitré; future Cardinal
- (1985-1994), appointed Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas
- Fernando Torres Durán (1996-1999), appointed Bishop of Chitré
- José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A. (2004-2010), appointed Archbishop here
- (2004-2019)
- Uriah Adolphus Ashley Maclean (2015-2019)
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[]
- , appointed Bishop of Chitré in 1963
- , appointed Bishop of Chitré in 2013
Current Bishops[]
- Archbishop : Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Territorial losses[]
Year | Along with | To form |
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1534 | Diocese of Cartagena | |
1534 | Diocese of León en Nicaragua | |
1546 | Diocese of Popayán | |
1925 | Vicariate Apostolic of Darién | |
1955 | Diocese of David | |
1962 | Diocese of Chitré | |
1963 | Diocese of Santiago de Veraguas | |
1993 | Diocese of Penonomé |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Panamá". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. [self-published]
- ^ Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá". GCatholic.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. [self-published]
- ^ Arzobispo de Panamá, Guillermo Rojas y Arrieta C.M. Resena Historica de los obispos que han ocupado la silla de Panamá desde su fundacion hasta nuestros dias Publisher: Escuela Tipográfica Salesiana (1929) |P. 5-7
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 268.
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has extra text (help) (in Latin) - ^ Eguiguren, Luis Antonio (1912). Catálogo histórico del claustro de la Universidad de San Marcos, 1576-1800. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. pp. 11. ISBN 9781168040367.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. p. 305.
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External links[]
- Arquidiócesis de Panamá official site (in Spanish)
- "Archdiocese of Panamá". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-16. [self-published]
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- Roman Catholic dioceses in Panama
- Religious organizations established in the 1510s
- 1513 establishments in the Spanish Empire
- Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 16th century
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Panamá