Metropolitan see Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros
Sancti Iacobi Equitum
Latin Church
Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese in the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, established as a diocese on 25 September 1953 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 14 February 1994. Its seat is the Catedral Santiago Apostol in Santiago de los Caballeros. Archbishop Hector Rafael Rodriguez Rodriguez, M.S.C., previously Bishop of La Vega, was appointed on 7 October 2023.
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- Established
- 1953
- Catholics
- 870,635
- Priests
- 127
- Territory
- 6,391 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
- Archbishop
- Hector Rafael Rodriguez Rodriguez, M.S.C.
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The cathedral
Catedral Santiago Apostol, Santiago de los Caballeros stands in Santiago de los Caballeros, 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.