Diocese of Bayamo y Manzanillo
Sanctissimi Salvatoris Bayamen(sis)-Manzanillen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bayamo y Manzanillo, Cuba
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:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de CubaSantiago de Cuba
- Diocese of Guantánamo-BaracoaGuantánamo-Baracoa
- Diocese of HolguínHolguín
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.