Diocese of Bayamo y Manzanillo
Sanctissimi Salvatoris Bayamen(sis)-Manzanillen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba
The Diocese of Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo is a Latin Church diocese in eastern Cuba, erected in 1995. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, and Osmany Massó Cuesta was appointed its bishop in January 2026.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 December 1995
- Latin
- Sanctissimi Salvatoris Bayamen(sis)-Manzanillen(sis)
- Patron
- Most Holy Savior (Santísimo Salvador)
- Annuario code
- 001002974
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 212,000
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Osmany Massó Cuesta
- Born
- 18 December 1976
- Birthplace
- Santiago de Cuba
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral del Santisimo Salvador, Bayamo stands in Bayamo y Manzanillo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Santiago de Cuba
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de CubaSantiago de Cuba
- Diocese of Guantánamo-BaracoaGuantánamo-Baracoa
- Diocese of HolguínHolguín
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Saco 52, Apartado 27, Bayamo 85100, Granma, Cuba
- Telephone
- [023]42.71.27; fax 42.72.70
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].