The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, comprising the northeast portion of the island of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States. It is led by a prelate archbishop who pastors the mother church in the City of San Juan, the Cathedral of San Juan.
The See of San Juan de Puerto Rico was canonically erected on 8 August 1511 as the Diocese of Puerto Rico on the island of San Juan, as it was then called. Due to the switch of names between the island and the capital after the Spanish-American War of 1898, its name was changed on 21 November 1924 to the Diocese of San Juan in Puerto Rico. With the creation of the Diocese of Arecibo on 30 April 1960, San Juan was raised to the status of an archdiocese, with the new Archbishop leading a metropolitan province comprising all the dioceses on the island as suffragan dioceses.
The Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico is the metropolitan see for the Caguas, Fajardo–Humacao, Ponce, Mayagüez and the Arecibo
The current Archbishop is the Most Reverend Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M.
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