This page is a list of Central American and Caribbean saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God, as recognized by the Catholic Church. 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.
List of saints
The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. As a fact, in the list Óscar Romero is the only native saint of Central America and the Caribbean. The rest were Spanish missionaries who carried out their apostolic work in these American countries.
Louis Bertrand, Dominican priest (Panama and the Caribbean) Declared Venerable: N/A Beatified: 19 July 1608 by Pope Paul V Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago (Cuba) Declared Venerable: 6 January 1926 Beatified: 25 February 1934 by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 7 May 1950 by Pope Pius XII Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz, Augustinian Recollect (Dominican Republic) Declared Venerable: 1 February 1975 Beatified: 1 November 1975 by Pope Paul VI Canonized: 11 October 1992 by Pope John Paul II Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, founder of the Order of Betlemitas (Guatemala) Declared Venerable: 25 July 1771 Beatified: 22 June 1980 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 30 July 2002 by Pope John Paul II Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (El Salvador) Declared Martyr: 3 February 2015 Beatified: 23 May 2015 by Cardinal Angelo Amato Canonized: 14 October 2018 by Pope Francis
List of blesseds
Jacques-Jules Bonnaud, Jesuit priest, martyr in France (Haiti) Declared Martyr: 1 October 1926 Beatified: 17 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI Encarnación Rosal (born Maria Vicenta Rosal Vasquez), Betlemite Sister (Guatemala) Declared Venerable: 6 April 1995 Beatified: 4 May 1997 by Pope John Paul II Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, layperson (Puerto Rico) Beatified: 29 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II Maria Romero Meneses, Salesian Sister (Costa Rica and Nicaragua) Declared Venerable: 18 December 2000 Beatified: 14 April 2002 by Pope John Paul II María Dolores Rodríguez Sopeña, foundress of the Sisters of the Catechetical Institute of Dolores Sopeña (active in Cuba 1873-1877) Declared Venerable: 11 July 1992 Beatified: 23 March 2003 by Pope John Paul II José López Piteira, Augustinian deacon, martyr in Spain (Cuba) Declared Martyr: 1 June 2007 Beatified: 28 October 2007 by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins José Olallo, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God (Cuba) Declared Venerable: 16 December 2006 Beatified: 29 November 2008 by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás, cardinal (was a priest in Cuba; later Patriarch of the West Indies, Dominican Republic) Declared Venerable: 28 April 2006 Beatified: 18 October 2009 by Archbishop Angelo Amato Armando Oscar Valdes, Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, martyr in Spain (Cuba) Declared Martyr: 5 July 2013 Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Cardinal Angelo Amato Stanley Rother, American priest from Oklahoma City area who was a missionary and was martyred by 3 men (Guatemala) Declared Martyr: 1 December 2016 Beatified: 23 September 2017 by Cardinal Angelo Amato Marcello Maruzzo, priest (Guatemala) Declared Martyr: 9 October 2017 Beatified: 27 October 2018 by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu Luis Navarro, layman (Guatemala) Declared Martyr: 9 October 2017 Beatified: 27 October 2018 by Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu James Alfred Miller (Leo William) [Santiago], professed religious of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers); martyr (Guatemala) Declared Martyr: 7 November 2018 Beatified: 7 December 2019 by Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán José María Gran Cirera and 9 Companions, laypersons of the diocese of Quiché (Guatemala) Declared Martyr: 23 January 2020 Beatified: 23 April 2021 by Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla Rutilio Grande Garcia, Jesuit priest (El Salvador) Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020 Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez Manuel Solórzano, layman (El Salvador) Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020 Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez Nelson Lemus, layperson (El Salvador) Declared Venerable: 21 February 2020 Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez Cosme Spessotto, Capuchin priest (El Salvador) Declared Venerable: 26 May 2020 Beatified: 22 January 2022 by Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez