# Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. 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

## History

* It was erected 18 December 1534, as the Diocese of Guatemala, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Santo Domingo.
* On 21 June 1561 territory was ceded to establish the Diocese of Vera Paz
* It was elevated to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala on 16 December 1743.
* It lost territory repeatedly: on 28 September 1842, to establish the then Diocese of San Salvador, on 27 July 1921, 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 10 March 1951, to establish the dioceses of Jalapa (its suffragan), Sololá and the Zacapa, on 9 May 1969, to establish the Territorial Prelature of Escuintla, and on 27 April 1996, to establish its suffragan Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima.
* Papal visits were undertaken by Pope John Paul II in March 1983, February 1996 and July 2002.
* The Archdiocese was renamed as the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala on 23 April 2013.

## Province

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archbishopric and the following suffragan bishoprics :
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Escuintla
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalapa
* Roman Catholic Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Verapaz, Cobán
* Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.

## Episcopal ordinaries
### Bishops of Guatemala

* Francisco Marroquin Hurtado (1523–1563)
* Bernardino de Villalpando, C.R.S.A. (1564–1569)
* Pedro Gómez de Córdoba, O.S.H. (1574–1598)
* Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. (1600–1609)
* Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1610–1615)
* Pedro de Valencia (1615–1617) appointed Bishop of La Paz
* Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. (1621–1630)
* Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia (1630–1641)
* Bartolomé González Soltero (1641–1650)
* Juan Garcilaso de la Vega (1652–1657)
* Payo Enríquez de Rivera Manrique, O.S.A. (1657–1668)
* Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1668–1675)
* Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño (1675–1682)
* Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo, O. de M. (1682–1702)
* Mauro de Larreátegui y Colón, O.S.B. (1703–1711)
* Juan Bautista Álvarez de Toledo, O.F.M. (1713–1723)
* Nicolás Carlos Gómez de Cervantes y Velázquez de la Cadena (1723–1726)
* Juan Leandro Gómez de Parada Valdez y Mendoza (1728–1735)
* Pedro Pardo de Figueroa, O.M. (1735–1743 see below)

### Archbishops of Guatemala

* Pedro Pardo de Figueroa, O.M. (see above 1743–1751)
* Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria (1752–1765)
* Pedro Cortés y Larraz (1766–1779)
* Cayetano Francos y Monroy (1778–1792)
* Juan Félix de Villegas (1793–1800)
* Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas (1801–1805)
* Rafael de La Vara (1806–1809)
* Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, O.P. (1815–1845)
* Francisco de Paul García Peláez (1845–1867)
* José Bernardo Piñol y Aycinena (1867–1881)
* Ricardo Casanova y Estrada (1886–1913)
* Julio Ramón Riveiro y Jacinto, O.P. (1914–1921)
* Luis Javier Muñoz y Capurón, S.J. (1921–1927)
* Luis Durou y Sure, 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
* Óscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. (2010 – April 25, 2013 see below)

### Archbishops of Santiago de Guatemala

* Óscar 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)

### Coadjutor bishops

* Fernando Ortiz de Hinojosa (1598); did not take effect
* Francisco de Paul García Peláez (1843–1845)
* Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1963–1964); future Cardinal

### Auxiliary bishops

* Miguel Cilieza y Velasco (1765–1767), appointed Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas)
* Antonio Larrazábal (1839–1846), never consecrated
* Juan Félix de Jesús Zepeda, O.F.M. Obs. (1859–1861), appointed Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras
* Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol (1859–1865)
* osé María Barrutia y Croquer (1859–1864)
* Emmanuele Francesco Barrutia y Croquer (1865–1879)
* Miguel Angel García y Aráuz (1944–1951), appointed Bishop of Jalapa
* Rafael González Estrada (1955–1984)
* Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1958–1963), appointed Coadjutor here; future Cardinal
* José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa (1967–2010)
* James Richard Ham, M.M. (1967–1979)
* Luis Mario Martínez de Lejarza Valle, S.J. (1968–1980)
* Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte (1980–1982), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sololá
* Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti (1982–1984), appointed Bishop of San Marcos
* Juan José Gerardi Conedera (1984–1998)
* Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M. (1987–2010)
* Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J. (2004–2007), appointed Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango
* Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández (2004–2016)
* Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes (2007–)
* José Cayetano Parra Novo, O.P. (2016–)

### Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Jorge de Viteri y Ungo, appointed Bishop of San Salvador in 1843
* José Cándido Piñol y Batres, appointed Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua in 1913
* Jorge García Caballeros, appointed Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos in 1928
* Pablo Vizcaíno Prado, appointed Bishop of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu in 1996
* Victor Hugo Palma Paúl, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla in 2001
* Álvaro 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

## Churches

* Iglesia Católica Sagrado Corazón de Jesus, Guatemala City
* Iglesia de Cristo Pinares del Nort