Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

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Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Guatemala

Arquidiócesis de Santiago de Guatemala
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Location
Country Guatemala
Ecclesiastical province Province of Santiago de Guatemala
Population
- Catholics

3,486,000 (80%)
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
EstablishedDecember 18, 1534
Cathedral Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of St. James
Patron saint Assumption of Mary, Saint James the Greater
Current leadership
Pope Francis
ArchbishopGonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.
Auxiliary Bishops Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández
Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes
José Cayetano Parra Novo

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.

Contents

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

History

Province

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

Episcopal ordinaries

Bishops of Guatemala
Archbishops of Guatemala
Archbishops of Santiago de Guatemala

Coadjutor bishops

Auxiliary bishops

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Churches

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