Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Latin: Archidioecesis Sanctae Crucis de Sierra) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia. It was erected as the Diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra by Pope Paul V on July 5, 1605, and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Paul VI on July 30, 1975, with the suffragan see of San Ignacio de Velasco.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is Cathedral-Basilica of San Lorenzo. The current Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra is Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, who was appointed by Pope John Paul II on February 6, 1991.
List of bishops of archbishops of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Antonio Calderón de León (1605 - 1621)
- Fernando de Ocampo, OFM (1621 - 1632)
- Juan Francisco de Padilla, O de M (1695 - ?)
- Jaime de Mimbela, OP (1714 - 1720)
- Andrés Vergara Uribe (1741 - 1744)
- Juan Domingo González de la Reguera (1776 - 1780)
- Manuel Nicolás Rojas de Argandoña (1795 - 1803)
- Francisco Javier Aldazábal (1807 - 1816)
- Giovanni Giuseppe Baldivia (1878 - 1891)
- Giuseppe Belisario Santistevan (1891 - 1931)
- Daniel Rivero Rivero (1931 - 1940)
- Augustin Arce Mostajo (1940 - 1958)
- Luis Aníbal Rodríguez Pardo (1958 - 1991)
- Julio Terrazas Sandoval, CSSR (1991 - present)
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- Roman Catholic dioceses in Bolivia
- Religious organizations established in 1605
- Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 17th century
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Bolivia
- South American Roman Catholic diocese stubs
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