List of venerated Central Americans and Caribbeans

These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the territories of North America excluding Mexico, Canada and the United States.

The first unquestioned presence of the Catholic Church in the Americas was in this region, when Christopher Columbus first set foot on San Salvador.

The oldest tangible evidence of Catholicism in the New World, the Cruz de la Parra, is kept in what is now Cuba.

As a fact, in the list Óscar Romero is the only native saint of Central America[1] and the Caribbean.

The rest were Spanish missionaries who carried out their apostolic work in these American countries.