Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio encompasses 27,841 square miles in 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, Maverick, Zavala, Frio, Atascosa, Dimmit, La Salle, and McMullen.
On August 28, 1874 the Roman 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 oversight of the Texas suffragan sees of Amarillo, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Laredo, Lubbock and San Angelo.
Originally the archdiocese had more suffragans, but in December, 2004 Pope John Paul II created the new Ecclesiastical Province of Galveston-Houston and elevated the See of Galveston-Houston to a Metropolitan See.
[edit] Archbishops since 1918
- Arthur Jerome Drossaerts (18 Jul 1918 - 8 Sep 1940 )
- Robert Emmet Lucey (23 Jan 1941 - 23 May 1969 )
- Francis James Furey (23 May 1969 - 23 Apr 1979 )
- Patrick Fernández Flores (23 Aug 1979 - 29 Dec 2004 )
- José Horacio Gómez (29 Dec 2004 - )
[edit] High schools
- Antonian College Preparatory High School, San Antonio
- Atonement Academy, San Antonio
- Central Catholic Marianist High School, San Antonio
- Holy Cross High School, San Antonio
- Incarnate Word High School, San Antonio
- Our Lady of the Hills High School, Kerrville
- Providence High School, San Antonio
- St. Anthony Catholic High School, San Antonio
- St. Gerard Catholic High School, San Antonio
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