Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña

Archdiocese of Agaña Archidioecesis Aganiensis
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Guam
Ecclesiastical province	Ecclesiastical province of Agaña
Statistics
Area	215 sq mi (560 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 155,687 132,494 (85.1%)
Parishes	26
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	March 1, 1911 (106 years ago)
Cathedral	Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Anthony Sablan Apuron, O.F.M. Cap., D.D. (suspended)
Coadjutor	Michael Jude Byrnes
Map
Website
http://archagana.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña (Latin: Archidioecesis Aganiensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It comprises the United States dependency of Guam. The prelate is an archbishop whose cathedral is the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica.

The archdiocese is a member of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific (CEPAC) and of the Federation of Catholic Bishops' Conferences of Oceania, and an observer to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The first Catholic church was established on Guam on June 15, 1668 by Spanish colonizers Diego Luis de San Vitores and Pedro Calungsod. Catholics in Guam were part of the Diocese of Cebu, the Philippines. The United States acquired Guam from Spain after the Spanish–American War of 1898. On September 17, 1902, the Apostolic Prefecture of Mariana Islands was established which included Guam.

On March 1, 1911, the Apostolic Vicariate of Guam was canonically erected. On July 4, 1946, territory was added from the suppressed Vicariate Apostolic of Marianne, Caroline, and Marshall Islands.

On October 14, 1965, the Vatican elevated the apostolic vicariate to the Diocese of Agaña, as a suffragan diocese to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.

...
Wikipedia