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.

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