The Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana is one of three Catholic archdioceses in Cuba.

History

The diocese was erected on 10 September 1787 by Pope Pius VI, from the territory of the then–Diocese of Santiago de Cuba. When it was erected, the new diocese encompassed the secular provinces of Santa Clara, Matanzas, Havana, and Pinar del Río in Cuba and Florida and Louisiana in what is now the United States of America. On 25 April 1793 the diocese lost territory for what would be the first of four territorial losses when the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans) was erected. The diocese again lost territory on 20 February 1903 when the dioceses of Pinar del Río and Cienfuegos were erected, and then again on 10 December 1912 upon the erection of the diocese of Matanzas. Eventually the diocese was elevated to the Metropolitan See of Sancti Christophori de Habana, San Cristobal de la Habana on 6 January 1925. Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino as Archbishop of Havana on 26 April 2016. The drchdiocese had one auxiliary bishop, Juan de Dios Hernández-Ruiz, SJ, who was appointed Bishop of Pinar del Rio in 2019. The archdiocese encompasses 7,542 km2 and has two suffragan dioceses, Matanzas and Pinar del Río. According to a 2004 estimate, there were a total of 3.9 million people living within the confines of the diocese, 71.8% or 2.8 million of whom were Catholic. There were 49 diocesan priests and 62 religious priests, totaling 111 priests serving the faithful of the diocese. With these figures, there were approximately 25,225 Catholics per priest. There were 23 permanent deacons and 79 male and 348 female religious. In 2004, there were 102 established parishes.

Ordinaries of San Cristobal de la Habana

Affiliated and Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese

Churches