Episcopal Conference of Colombia

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.

Episcopal Conference of Colombia
Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia
AbbreviationCEC
Formation14 September 1908
TypeEpiscopal conference
Legal statusCivil nonprofit
Region served
Colombia
Membership
Active and retired Catholic bishops of the Colombia
Official language
Spanish
President
Luis José Rueda Aparicio
Main organ
Conference

Ecclesiastical organization

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The Catholic Church is organised into 13 archdioceses, 52 suffragan dioceses, 10 apostolic vicariates and one military ordinariate. The archdiocese and dioceses are:

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

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No. President See Term
1 Bernardo Herrera Restrepo Bogotá 1908–1928
2 Ismael Perdomo Borrero Bogotá 1928–1950
3 Crisanto Luque Sánchez Bogotá 1950–1959
4 Luis Concha Córdoba Bogotá 1959–1964
5 Aníbal Muñoz Duque Nueva Pamplona

Bogotá

1964–1972
6 José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez Garzón

Manizales

1972–1978
7 Mario Revollo Bravo Nueva Pamplona 1978–1984
8 Héctor Rueda Hernández Bucaramanga 1984–1987
9 Alfonso López Trujillo Medellín 1987–1990
10 Pedro Rubiano Sáenz Cali

Bogotá

1990–1996
11 Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo Popayán

Medellín

1996–2002
12 Pedro Rubiano Sáenz Bogotá 2002–2005
13 Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga Tunja 2005–2008
14 Rubén Salazar Gómez Barranquilla
Bogotá
2008–2014
15 Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga Tunja 2014–2017
16 Oscar Urbina Ortega Villavicencio 2017–2021
17 Luis José Rueda Aparicio Bogotá 2017–2021

See also

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