Suffragan diocese Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba
Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa
Guantanamen(sis)- Baracoën(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Guantanamo-Baracoa is a Latin rite diocese covering Guantanamo province in eastern Cuba, suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba. It was erected on 24 January 1998 from the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba. Its seat is the St. Catherine of Ricci Cathedral in Guantanamo; Baracoa was the site of Cuba's first see (1516).
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- Established
- 1998
- Catholics
- 203,300
- Priests
- 13
- Territory
- 6,565 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Silvano Herminio Pedroso Montalvo
- Born
- 25 April 1953
- Birthplace
- Cárdenas
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The cathedral
St. Catherine of Ricci Cathedral stands in Guantánamo-Baracoa, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Taking in the municipality of Baracoa and the surrounding Guantánamo Province in Cuba, the Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa is a particular church of the Latin Church. Pope John Paul II's era saw it erected on 24 January 1998 out of territory of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, of which it remains a suffragan.