Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana

Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana Archidioecesis Avanensis
Catedral de San Cristóbal
Location
Country	Cuba
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San Cristóbal de la Habana
Metropolitan	Havana
Statistics
Area	7,542 km2 (2,912 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 3,930,000 2,822,000 (71.8%)
Parishes	85
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	10 September 1787 (229 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Christopher
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop-Designate	Juan García Rodríguez
Auxiliary Bishops	Juan de Dios Hernández-Ruiz, S.J.
Emeritus Bishops	Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Cristobal de la Habana (Latin: Archidioecesis Avanensis) is one of three Catholic Archdioceses in Cuba.

Erected originally as Santiago de Cuba, this Latin Rite or Roman Rite diocese was erected as the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba on 10 September 1787 by Pope Pius VI. The original diocese encompassed the provinces of Santa Clara, Matanzas, Havana, and Pinar del Río in Cuba and Florida and Louisiana in what is now the United States of America. On 25 April 1793 the diocese lost territory for what would be the first of four territorial losses when the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans) was erected. The diocese again lost territory on 20 February 1903 when the dioceses of Pinar del Río and Cienfuegos were erected, and then again on 10 December 1912 upon the erection of the diocese of Matanzas. Eventually the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba was suppressed and elevated to the Metropolitan See of Sancti Christophori de Habana, San Cristobal de la Habana on 6 January 1925.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal-Archbishop of Havana Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino on 26 April 2016. The Archdiocese has one auxiliary bishop, Bishop Juan de Dios Hernández-Ruiz, S.J.

The Archdiocese encompasses 7,542 square kilometres (2,912 sq mi) and has two suffragan dioceses, Matanzas and Pinar del Río. According to a 2004 estimate there were a total of 3.9 million people living within the confines of the diocese, 71.8% or 2.8 million of whom were Roman Catholic. There were 49 diocesan priests and 62 religious priests, totaling 111 priests serving the faithful of the diocese. With these figures, there were approximately 25,225 Catholics per priest. There were 23 permanent deacons and 79 men-religious and 348 women-religious. In 2004, there were 102 established parishes.