Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio


The Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio encompasses in the US state of Texas.
The archdiocese includes the city of San Antonio and the following counties: Val Verde, Edwards, Kerr, Gillespie, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Uvalde, Kinney, Medina, Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, Frio, Atascosa, and the portion of McMullen north of the Nueces River.
On August 28, 1874, the Catholic Diocese of Galveston was divided and the northern territory was canonically erected by the Holy See as the diocese of San Antonio. Originally part of the Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans, it was subsequently elevated on August 3, 1926, to a metropolitan archdiocese.
The archbishop of San Antonio also serves as the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of San Antonio with the Archdiocese of San Antonio overseeing the following suffragan dioceses: Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Laredo, Lubbock, and San Angelo. All of Texas' dioceses had been suffragan sees under San Antonio until December 2004 when Pope John Paul II created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston and elevated the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to a Metropolitan See.

History of diocese

The Archdiocese of San Antonio was erected as a diocese on August 28, 1874, under the then Diocese of Galveston. It was elevated to an archdiocese on August 3, 1926. As of 2010, it has 138 parishes, 34 missions and two pastoral centers.
With the appointment of Archbishop José Horacio Gómez as the Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles, its cathedral was considered sede vacante until October 14, 2010.
On October 14, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Gustavo Garcia-Siller as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio.
On January 31, 2019, the Archdiocese of San Antonio released a list of 56 Catholic clergy who were "credibly accused" of committing acts of sex abuse as early as 1940.

Bishops

The following are lists of ordinaries and auxiliary bishops, and their years of service. They are followed by other priests of this diocese who became bishops.

Ordinaries

;Bishops of San Antonio
  1. Anthony Dominic Ambrose Pellicer
  2. John Claude Neraz
  3. John Anthony Forest
  4. John William Shaw, appointed Archbishop of New Orleans
  5. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts
;Archbishops of San Antonio
  1. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts
  2. Robert Emmet Lucey
  3. Francis James Furey
  4. Patrick Fernández Flores
  5. José Horacio Gómez, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of Los Angeles
  6. Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S.

    Coadjutor Bishops

;Universities
;High schools
;Former high schools
See List of the Catholic bishops of the United States