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Diocese of Bayamo y Manzanillo

Sanctissimi Salvatoris Bayamen(sis)-Manzanillen(sis)

The Diocese of Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo is a Latin Church diocese in eastern Cuba, erected in 1995. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, and Osmany Massó Cuesta was appointed its bishop in January 2026.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
9 December 1995
Latin
Sanctissimi Salvatoris Bayamen(sis)-Manzanillen(sis)
Patron
Most Holy Savior (Santísimo Salvador)
Annuario code
001002974

The see in figures

Catholics
212,000
Extent
8,362 km²
Catholics per km²
25

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Osmany Massó Cuesta
Born
18 December 1976
Birthplace
Santiago de Cuba

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Catedral del Santisimo Salvador, Bayamo stands in Bayamo y Manzanillo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Santiago de Cuba

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Obispado, Saco 52, Apartado 27, Bayamo 85100, Granma, Cuba
Telephone
[023]42.71.27; fax 42.72.70

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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Sources

Wikipedia · GCatholic

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.