Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela

Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela Archidioecesis Compostellana Archidiócesis de Santiago de Compostela (es) Arquidiocese de Santiago de Compostela (gl)
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
Location
Country	Spain
Ecclesiastical province	Santiago de Compostela
Statistics
Area	8,545 km2 (3,299 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 1,301,147 1,192,508 (91.7%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	5 December 1095 (As Diocese of Santiago de Compostela) 27 February 1120 (As Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela)
Cathedral	Cathedral basilica of St James the Apostle in Santiago de Compostela
Patron saint	St James the Greater
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Francisco José Prieto Fernández
Suffragans	Diocese of Lugo Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol Diocese of Ourense Diocese of Tui-Vigo
Bishops emeritus	Julián Barrio Barrio
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Latin: Archidioecesis Compostellana) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. It is the most senior of the five districts into which the church divides the region of Galicia.^[1][2]

The seat of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, dedicated to the Apostle James.