Archdiocese of San Antonio

Archdiocese of San Antonio Archidioecesis Sancti Antonii
The coat of arms of the archdiocese
Location
Country	United States
Territory	City of San Antonio and the following counties: Val Verde, Edwards, Kerr, Gillespie, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Uvalde, Kinney, Medina, Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, Frio, Atascosa, and McMullen.
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San Antonio
Statistics
Area	27,841 sq mi (72,110 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 2,458,351 728,001 (29.6%)
Parishes	139
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	August 28, 1874
Cathedral	San Fernando Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Gustavo García-Siller
Auxiliary Bishops	Michael Joseph Boulette
Emeritus Bishops	Thomas Flanagan
Map
Website
archsa.org

The Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio (Roman Rite) encompasses 27,841 square miles (72,110 km²) in the US state of Texas.

The archdiocese includes the city of San Antonio and the following counties: Val Verde, Edwards, Kerr, Gillespie, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Uvalde, Kinney, Medina, Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, Frio, Atascosa, and the portion of McMullen north of the Nueces River.

On August 28, 1874, the Catholic Diocese of Galveston was divided and the northern territory was canonically erected by the Holy See as the diocese of San Antonio. Originally part of the Ecclesiastical Province of New Orleans, it was subsequently elevated on August 3, 1926, to a metropolitan archdiocese.

The archbishop of San Antonio also serves as the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of San Antonio with the Archdiocese of San Antonio overseeing the following suffragan dioceses: Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Laredo, Lubbock, and San Angelo. All of Texas' dioceses had been suffragan sees under San Antonio until December 2004 when Pope John Paul II created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston and elevated the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to a Metropolitan See.