Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Panamá
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Panamá is a Metropolitan Archdiocese, and its suffragan dioceses include Chitré, Colón-Kuna Yala, David, Penonomé and Santiago de Veraguas, as well as the Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro. The Diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién was originally located upriver from the mouth of the Atrato River on the Gulf of Urabá in the Castilla de Oro province.
The see was moved to Panama City and renamed as the Diocese of Panamá on 7 December 1520 and elevated to an archdiocese on 29 November 1925. The current Metropolitan Archbishop of Panama is Archbishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.Bishops
Ordinaries
;Diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién
Erected August 28, 1513
- Juan de Quevedo Villegas, O.F.M.
;Diocese of Panamá
;Archdiocese of Panamá
Elevated: 29 November 1925
- Juan José Maíztegui y Besoitaiturria, C.M.F.
- Francisco Beckmann, C.M.F.
- Tomas Alberto Clavel Méndez
- Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C.
- José Dimas Cedeño Delgado ; Archbishop Emeritus
- Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Coadjutor bishop
- Juan Francisco del Rosario Manfredo y Ballestas
Auxiliary bishops
- Juan José Maíztegui y Besoitaiturria, C.M.F., appointed Archbishop here
- Francisco Beckmann, C.M., appointed Archbishop here
- Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C., appointed Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of David
- José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R., appointed Bishop of Chitré; future Cardinal
- Oscar Mario Brown Jiménez, appointed Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas
- Fernando Torres Durán, appointed Bishop of Chitré
- José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., appointed Archbishop here
- Pablo Varela Server
- Uriah Adolphus Ashley Maclean
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- José María Carrizo Villarreal, appointed Bishop of Chitré in 1963
- Rafael Valdivieso Miranda, appointed Bishop of Chitré in 2013
Current Bishops
- Archbishop : Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Territorial losses
