The Episcopal Conference of Colombia is an administrative institution and permanence of the Catholic Church, composed of all the bishops of the dioceses of Colombia in a college, in communion with the Roman Pontiff and under his authority to exercise set of certain pastoral functions of the episcopate on the faithful of their territory under the rule of law and statutes, in order to promote the life of the Church, to strengthen its mission of evangelization and respond more effectively to the greater good that the Church should seek to men.
Ecclesiastical organization
The Catholic Church is organised into 13 archdioceses, 52 suffragan dioceses, 10 apostolic vicariates and one military ordinariate. The archdiocese and dioceses are: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barranquilla – Suffragan dioceses: El Banco, Riohacha, Santa Marta and Valledupar; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá – Suffragan dioceses: Engativá, Facatativá, Fontibón, Girardot, Soacha and Zipaquirá; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucaramanga – Suffragan dioceses: Barrancabermeja, Málaga-Soatá, Socorro and San Gil and Vélez; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cali – Suffragan Dioceses: Buenaventura, Buga, Cartago and Palmira; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cartagena – Suffragan Dioceses: Magangué, Montelíbano, Montería and Sincelejo; Archdiocese of Florencia – Suffragan dioceses: Mocoa-Sibundoy and San Vicente del Caguán; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ibagué – Suffragan Dioceses: Espinal, Garzón, Líbano-Honda and Neiva; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manizales – Suffragan dioceses: Armenia, La Dorada-Guaduas and Pereira; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Medellín – Suffragan Dioceses: Caldas, Girardota, Jericó and Sonsón-Rionegro; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona – Suffragan Dioceses: Arauca, Cúcuta, Ocaña and Tibú; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán – Suffragan Dioceses: Ipiales, Pasto and Tumaco; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe de Antioquia – Suffragan dioceses: Apartadó, Tadó-Istmina, Quibdó and Santa Rosa de Osos; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunja – Suffragan Dioceses: Chiquinquirá, Duitama-Sogamoso, Garagoa and Yopal; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio – Suffragan dioceses: Granada in Colombia and San José del Guaviare.
The apostolic vicariates are Guapi, Inírida, Leticia, Mitú, Puerto Carreño, Puerto Gaitán, Puerto Leguízamo-Solano, San Andrés y Providencia, Tierradentro and Trinidad. By their nature, they are direct subject to the Holy See.
Finally, there is the Military Ordinariate of Colombia.
Presidents No.PresidentSeeTerm1Bernardo Herrera RestrepoBogotá1908–19282Ismael Perdomo BorreroBogotá1928–19503Crisanto Luque SánchezBogotá1950–19594Luis Concha CórdobaBogotá1959–19645Aníbal Muñoz DuqueNueva Pamplona Bogotá1964–19726José de Jesús Pimiento RodríguezGarzón Manizales1972–19787Mario Revollo BravoNueva Pamplona1978–19848Héctor Rueda HernándezBucaramanga1984–19879Alfonso López TrujilloMedellín1987–199010Pedro Rubiano SáenzCali Bogotá1990–199611Alberto Giraldo JaramilloPopayán Medellín1996–200212Pedro Rubiano SáenzBogotá2002–200513Luis Augusto Castro QuirogaTunja2005–200814Rubén Salazar GómezBarranquillaBogotá2008–201415Luis Augusto Castro QuirogaTunja2014–201716Oscar Urbina OrtegaVillavicencio2017–202117Luis José Rueda AparicioBogotá2021–202418Francisco Javier Múnera CorreaCartagena2024–present
See also Catholic Church in Colombia
External links CEC.org GigaCatholic UCatholica
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