Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

*Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Guatemala*

Arquidiócesis de Santiago de Guatemala
Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala; Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Guatemala; Arquidiócesis de Santiago de Guatemala
Location
Country	Guatemala
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Santiago de Guatemala
Population; - Catholics (including non-members)	; 3,486,000 (80%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	December 18, 1534
Cathedral	Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of St. James
Patron saint	Assumption of Mary, Saint James the Greater
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.
Auxiliary Bishops	Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández ; ;

There is also a Diocese of Guatemala (and a Bishop of Guatemala) in the Anglican Church in Central America.

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala.^[1]^[2] It is a primatial metropolitan see with six suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province.

Special churches[]

Its cathedral is the Catedral Primada Metropolitana de Santiago, is the episcopal see in the national capital Ciudad de Guatemala.

It also has

the former Cathedral, a World Heritage Site: Catedral de San José, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez
a Minor Basilica, National Shrine: Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
other National Shrine: Iglesia de San Francisco el Grande, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez
further Shrines: Santuario Arquidiocesano del Señor San José, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala and Santuario Expiatorio al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala

It was erected 18 December 1534, as the Diocese of Guatemala, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Santo Domingo.
On 1561.06.21 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Vera Paz
It was elevated to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala on 16 December 1743.
It lost territory repeatedly : on 1842.09.28 to establish the then Diocese of San Salvador, on 1921.07.27 to establish the then Roman Catholic Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos (now also a metropolitan archdiocese) and the then Apostolic Vicariate of Verapaz and Petén, on 1951.03.10 to establish the dioceses of Jalapa (its suffragan), Sololá and the Zacapa, on 1969.05.09 to establish Territorial Prelature of Escuintla and on 1996.04.27 to establish its suffragan Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima.
It enjoyed papal visits from Pope John Paul II in March 1983, February 1996 and July 2002.
It was renamed on 23 April 2013 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archbishopric and the following suffragan bishoprics :

Francisco Marroquin Hurtado (1523–1563)^[3]
Bernardino de Villalpando, C.R.S.A. (1564–1569)^[3]
Pedro Gómez de Córdoba, O.S.H. (1574–1598)^[3]
Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. (1600–1609)^[3]
Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1610–1615)^[4]
Pedro de Valencia (1615–1617) Appointed, Bishop of La Paz^[5]
Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. (1621–1630)^[6]
Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia (1630–1641)^[7]
Bartolomé González Soltero (1641–1650)
(1652–1657)
Payo Enríquez de Rivera Manrique, O.S.A. (1657–1668)
Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1668–1675)^[8]
Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño (1675–1682)
Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo, O. de M. (1682–1702)^[9]
, O.S.B. (1703–1711)
, O.F.M. (1713–1723)
(1723–1726)
(1728–1735)
, O,M. (1735–1743 see below)

Pedro Pardo de Figueroa, O.M. (see above 1743–1751)
(1752–1765)
Pedro Cortés y Larraz (1766–1779)
(1778–1792)
(1793–1800)
Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas (1801–1805)
(1806–1809)
, O.P. (1815–1845)
(1845–1867)
(1867–1881)
Ricardo Casanova y Estrada (1886–1913)
, O.P. (1914–1921)
, S.J. (1921–1927)
, C.M. (1928–1938)
Mariano Rossell y Arellano (1939–1964)
Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1964–1983); elevated to Cardinal in 1969
Próspero Penados del Barrio (1983–2001)
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (2001–2010); elevated to Cardinal in 2003
Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. (2010 – April 25, 2013 see below)

Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. (see above April 25, 2013 – February 24, 2018)
Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J. (July 9, 2020 – present)

(1765-1767), appointed Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas)
(1839-1846), never consecrated
, O.F.M. Obs. (1859-1861), appointed Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras
Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (1859-1865)
(1859-1864)
(1865-1879)
(1944-1951), appointed Bishop of Jalapa
(1955-1984)
Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1958-1963), appointed Coadjutor here; future Cardinal
(1967-2010)
James Richard Ham, M.M. (1967-1979)
, S.J. (1968-1980)
(1980-1982), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sololá
(1982-1984), appointed Bishop of San Marcos
Juan José Gerardi Conedera (1984-1998)
, C.M. (1987-2010)
, S.J. (2004-2007), appointed Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango
Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández (2004-2016)
(2007-
, O.P. (2016-

Jorge de Viteri y Ungo, appointed Bishop of San Salvador in 1843
, appointed Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua in 1913
, appointed Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos in 1928
Pablo Vizcaino Prado, appointed Bishop of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu in 1996
, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla in 2001
Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, appointed Bishop of San Marcos in 2008; elevated as Cardinal in 2019
Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez, appointed Bishop of San Marcos in 2014