The Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Cuba. It is a metropolitan see with four suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province: Guantánamo-Baracoa, Holguín and Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo. Prior to elevation as a archdiocese, the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seville in Spain until 12 February 1546 when it became a suffragan of the Diocese of Santo Domingo (now Archdiocese of Santo Domingo) in the Dominican Republic. In 1803, the see was elevated to an archdiocese. The archdiocese is the home of the Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre.

Bishops

Erected: 1518 Name Changed: 28 April 1522 Latin Name: Sancti Iacobi in Cuba • Sebastián de Salamanca (1525–1526) Died • Miguel Ramírez de Salamanca, OP (1530–1534) Died • Diego de Sarmiento, OCart (1535–1544) Resigned • Fernando de Uranga (1550–1556) Died • Bernardino de Villalpando, CRSA (1561–1564) Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala • Juan del Castillo (bishop) (1564–1578) Resigned) • Juan Antonio Diaz de Salcedo, OFM (1580–1597) Appointed, Bishop of Nicaragua) • Bartolomé de la Plaza, OFM (1597–1602) Died • Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1602–1610) Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala • Alonso Orozco Enriquez de Armendáriz Castellanos y Toledo, OdeM (1610–1624) Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán • Gregorio de Alarcón, OAD (1623–1624) Died • Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal (1625–1629) Appointed, Bishop of Guadalajara • Jerónimo Manrique de Lara y de Herrera, OdeM (1629–1644) Died • Martín de Zelaya y Oláriz (1645–1649) Resigned • Nicolás de la Torre Muñoz (1649–1653) Died • Juan de Montiel (1655–1657) Died • Pedro de Reina Maldonado (1659–1660) Died before he was consecrated • Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1661–1668) Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala • Alonso Bernardo de los Ríos y Guzmán, OSsT (1668–1671) Appointed, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo) • Gabriel Díaz Vara Calderón (1671–1676) Died • Juan Antonio García de Palacios (1677–1682) Died • Baltasar de Figueroa, OCist (1683–1684) Died • Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela (1685–1704) Died • Jerónimo Nosti de Valdés, OSBas (1705–1729) Died • Francisco de Izarregui (1730) Resigned • Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo, OSA (1730–1731) Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona • José Laso de la Vega y Cansino, OFM (1731–1752) Died • Pedro Agustín Morell de Santa Cruz y Lora (1753–1768) Died • Santiago José Echaverría Nieto de Osorio y Elguera (1770–1788) Appointed, Bishop of Tlaxcala) • Antonio Feliú y Centena (1789–1791) Died • Joaquín de Osés y Alzúa y Caparacio (1792–1823) Died Elevated: 24 November 1803

Auxiliary bishops

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Territorial losses

The see also gained territory in 1527 with the suppression of the Diocese of Concepción de la Vega.

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