Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala

Archdiocese of Guatemala Archidioecesis Guatimalensis
Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of St. James
Location
Country	Guatemala
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Guatemala City
Metropolitan	La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, Guatemala Department
Population - Catholics	3,486,000 (80%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	December 18, 1534
Cathedral	Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of St. James
Patron saint	Assumption of Mary, Saint James the Greater
Current leadership
Pope	Benedict XVI
Archbishop	Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. Archbishop of Guatemala City
Auxiliary Bishop	Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes, Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala (erected 18 December 1534, as the Diocese of Guatemala) is a metropolitan diocese, responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Escuintla, Jalapa, Santa Rosa de Lima, Verapaz, Cobán and Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas. It was elevated on 16 December 1743. The current Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala is His Excellency, The Most Reverend Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B.; he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, October 4, 2010 to replace His Eminence, Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, who was retiring for reasons of age, having reached the age of 75 at which all bishops must submit their resignations to the Pope.

Ordinaries

• Francisco Marroquin Hurtado (1523–1563)
• Bernardino de Villalpando, C.R.S.A. (1564–1569)
• Pedro Gómez de Córdoba, O.S.H. (1574–1598)
• Juan Ramírez de Arellano, O.P. (1600–1609)
• Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano (1610–1615)
• Juan de Zapata y Sandoval, O.S.A. (1621–1630)
• Agustín de Ugarte y Sarabia (1630–1641)
• Bartolomé González Soltero (1641–1650)
• Juan Garcilaso de la Vega (1652–1657)
• Payo Enríquez de Rivera Manrique, O.S.A. (1657–1668)
• Juan de Sancto Mathía Sáenz de Mañozca y Murillo (1668–1675)
• Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño (1675–1682)
• Andrés de las Navas y Quevedo, O. de M. (1682–1702)
• Mauro de Larreátegui y Colón, O.S.B. (1703–1711)
• Juan Bautista Alvarez de Toledo, O.F.M. (1713–1723)
• Nicolás Carlos Gómez de Cervantes y Velázquez de la Cadena (1723–1726)
• Juan Leandro Gómez de Parada Valdez y Mendoza (1728–1735)
• Pedro Pardo de Figueroa (1735–1751)
• Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria (1752–1765)
• Pedro Cortez y Larraz (1766–1779)
• Cayetano Francos y Monroy (1778–1792)
• Juan Félix de Villegas (1793–1800)
• Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cárdenas (1801–1805)
• Rafael de La Vara (1806–1809)
• Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, O.P. (1815–1845)
• Francisco de Paul García Peláez (1845–1867)
• José Bernardo Piñol y Aycinena (1867–1881)
• Ricardo Casanova y Estrada (1886–1913)
• Julio Ramón Riveiro y Jacinto, O.P. (1914–1921)
• Luis J. Muñoz y Capurón, S.J. (1921–1927)
• Luis Durou y Sure, C.M. (1928–1938)
• Mariano Rossell y Arellano (1939–1964)
• Mario Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. (1964–1983)
• Próspero Penados del Barrio (1983–2001)
• Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (2001–2010)
• Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B. (2010–present)

Bishops

• Archbishop: Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B.
• Archbishop Emeritus: Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno
• Auxiliary Bishop: Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.
• Auxiliary Bishop: Gustavo Rodolfo Mendoza Hernández
• Auxiliary Bishop: José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa
• Auxiliary Bishop: Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M.

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1561		Diocese of Comayagua
1842		Diocese of San Salvador
1921		Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos Vicariate Apostolic of Verapaz and Petén
1951		Diocese of Jalapa Diocese of Zacapa
1951	Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos	Diocese of Sololá
1969		Territorial Prelature of Escuintla
1996		Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima

External links and references

• "Archdiocese of Guatemala". Catholic-Hierarchy. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dguat.html. Retrieved 2007-02-22.