The Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi Capitis Viridis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Cape Verde.
The Diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde was created on January 31, 1533, as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Funchal (Azores, Portugal) by Pope Clement VII.
[2] Bishop Francisco de la Cruz started construction of a cathedral in Ribeira Grande in 1556.
[3] Until September 4, 1940, the diocese covered not only the Cape Verde islands, but also Portuguese Guinea on the African mainland.
Portuguese Guinea became a Mission sui iuris, the later Roman Catholic Diocese of Bissau.