Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

Special churches

• 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 Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Domingo.
• On 1561.06.21 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Vera Paz
• It was elevated to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala on 16 December 1743.
• It lost territory repeatedly : on 1842.09.28 to establish the then Roman Catholic Diocese of San Salvador, on 1921.07.27 to establish the then Roman Catholic Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos and the then Apostolic Vicariate of Verapaz and Petén, on 1951.03.10 to establish the dioceses of Jalapa, Sololá and the Zacapa, on 1969.05.09 to establish Territorial Prelature of Escuintla and on 1996.04.27 to establish its suffragan Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima.
• It enjoyed papal visits from Pope John Paul II in March 1983, February 1996 and July 2002.
• It was renamed on 23 April 2013 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

  Province

• 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

• Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B.
• Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.

  Coadjutor bishops

• Fernando Ortiz de Hinojosa ; did not take effect
• Francisco de Paul García Peláez
• Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. ; future Cardinal

  Auxiliary bishops

• Miguel Cilieza y Velasco, appointed Bishop of Chiapas
• Antonio Larrazábal, never consecrated
• Juan Félix de Jesús Zepeda, O.F.M. Obs., appointed Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras
• Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol
• osé María Barrutia y Croquer
• Emmanuele Francesco Barrutia y Croquer
• Miguel Angel García y Aráuz, appointed Bishop of Jalapa
• Rafael González Estrada
• Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S., appointed Coadjutor here; future Cardinal
• José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa
• James Richard Ham, M.M.
• Luis Mario Martínez de Lejarza Valle, S.J.
• Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sololá
• Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti, appointed Bishop of San Marcos
• Juan José Gerardi Conedera
• Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M.
• Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J., appointed Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango
• Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández
• Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes (2007-
• José Cayetano Parra Novo, O.P. (2016-

  Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• José 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 Vizcaino Prado, appointed Bishop of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu in 1996
• Victor Hugo Palma Paúl, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla in 2001
• Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, appointed Bishop of San Marcos in 2008; future Cardinal
• Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez, appointed Bishop of San Marcos in 2014