Need high-quality Catholic imagery for your parish bulletin, social media, or ministry website? Cathopic is the world's largest Catholic stock media platform, offering royalty-free photos, videos, vector graphics, artwork, and AI-generated images — all created by and for Catholics.^1
Founded in 2017 by Dimitri Conejo Sanz, a UX/UI designer inspired to fill the gap in authentic, beautiful Catholic visual content, Cathopic has grown into a global community of over 2,300 Catholic creators across 160 countries.^2 The platform serves more than 104,000 registered users, including 174+ dioceses, and partners with organizations like the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, St. Paul Center, Christendom College, and ACN Brasil.^1
Cathopic operates on a subscription model with two tracks — "Only Photos" (48,000+ images, artworks, and AI) and "All-In-One" (photos, 5,400+ videos, and 1,000+ vectors/illustrations). Plans offer 10 to 350+ downloads per month, with annual billing saving up to 40%. Free weekly photo downloads are also available. Unused downloads roll over, and the platform offers bilingual search in English and Spanish.^3
What sets Cathopic apart is its mission-driven approach: subscriptions directly support Catholic creators — many of whom are religious or consecrated individuals — and fund pastoral work around the world. It's part of Dimconex Media, a Madrid-based Catholic innovation agency for digital evangelization that also runs Holydemia (Catholic online courses), Mater Coeli (Marian consecration platform), Tolkian (Catholic digital magazine), and Christicons (free Christian SVG icon library).^2
The platform also offers an API for developers integrating Catholic media into their own apps, a public domain collection of historical Christian art, an affiliate program for partners, and a trends page showing popular searches across the community.^1
Dimitri's own story powers the platform's mission. Born in Russia to alcoholic parents, he survived a childhood of poverty, hunger, and an orphanage before being adopted by a Spanish family. After years away from God, a powerful reconversion experience — sparked at World Youth Day Krakow — led him to dedicate his life and talents to digital evangelization, creating Cathopic to bring the beauty of God to the world through design. He is joined on the Cathopic team by César Luis Guzmán Portal, who leads much of the platform's blog and creative content.^5
Notable- Partnered with World Youth Day Panama 2019 for official event photography^2
- Launched Cathopic 4.0 in May 2025 with a completely redesigned platform^2
- Expanded to the U.S. market in 2023, now serving hundreds of American parishes^2
- Active blog publishes liturgical-season creative content (most recent post April 2025)^5
- Content is moderated to maintain Catholic quality standards, with new resources added daily^3
- Offers the world's largest public domain library of historical Christian art^6
- Founder's testimony featured in Alfa y Omega, Rome Reports, and multiple Catholic media outlets^7
