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Metropolitan see Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Archdiocese of Santa Fe

Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe was established as a vicariate apostolic in 1850 and raised to an archdiocese in 1875. It is the metropolitan see for New Mexico and Arizona, led by Archbishop John C. Wester.

On the map

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Santa Fe, United States, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1850
Catholics
323,850
Priests
195
Territory
158,357 km²

Parishes and churches

94 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
John Charles Wester
Born
5 November 1950
Birthplace
San Francisco

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The cathedral

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi stands in Santa Fe, 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.

History

In the southwestern United States, the state of New Mexico is home to the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Latin: Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali, Spanish: Arquidiócesis de Santa Fe). Its mother church, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, stands in the city of Santa Fe, yet the archdiocese conducts its administration from Albuquerque, roughly sixty miles distant. John Charles Wester is the current archbishop.