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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Líbano–Honda
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano–Honda () is a diocese located in northern Tolima Department in Colombia, with sees in the cities of Líbano, Tolima, Líbano and Honda, Tolima, Honda in the ecclesiastical province of List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia#Ecclesiastical province of Ibagué, Ibagué in Colombia. History The Diocese of Líbano–Honda was erected from territory within the northern end of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ibagué, Archdiocese of Ibagué on 8 July 1989. Ordinaries *José Luis Serna Alzate, I.M.C. (8 July 1989 – 12 July 2002) *Rafael Arcadio Bernal Supelano, C.Ss.R. (10 January 2003 – 28 February 2004) *José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez (22 November 2004 – 23 February 2015), appointed Bishop of Facatativá *José Luis Henao Cadavid (17 October 2015 – ) See also *Roman Catholicism in Colombia References Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Ibagué Christian organizations establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Ibagué
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ibagué () is an archdiocese located in the city of Ibagué in Colombia. History * 20 May 1900: Established as Diocese of Ibagué from the Diocese of Tolima * 14 December 1974: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ibagué Bishops * Bishops of Ibagué **Ismael Perdomo Borrero † (8 Jun 1903 – 5 Feb 1923) Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá, Bogotá **Pedro María Rodríguez Andrade † (10 Apr 1924 – 17 Mar 1957) Retired **Arturo Duque Villegas † (17 Mar 1957 – 7 Jul 1959) Appointed, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manizales, Manizales **Rubén Isaza Restrepo † (2 Nov 1959 – 3 Jan 1964) Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Bogotá **José Joaquín Flórez Hernández † (17 March 1964 – 14 Dec 1974 ''see below'') * Archbishops of Ibagué **José Joaquín Flórez Hernández † (''see above'' 14 Dec 1974 – 25 Mar 1993) Retired **Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M. (25 Mar 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Latin Church
The Latin Church () is the largest autonomous () particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' churches in full communion with the pope; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern Catholic Churches, and they have approximately 18 million members combined. The Latin Church is directly headed by the pope in his role as the bishop of Rome, whose ''cathedra'' as a bishop is located in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. The Latin Church both developed within and strongly influenced Western culture; as such, it is sometimes called the Western Church (), which is reflected in one of the pope's traditional titles in some eras and contexts, the Patriarch of the West. It is also known as the Roman Church (), the Latin Catholic Church, and in some contexts as the Roman Catholic (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tolima Department
Tolima () is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the Andean region, in the center-west of the country. It is bordered on the north and the west by the department of Caldas; on the east by the department of Cundinamarca; on the south by the department of Huila, and on the west by the departments of Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Quindío and Risaralda. Tolima has a surface area of 23,562 km2, and its capital is Ibagué. The department of Tolima was created in 1861 from a part of what was previously Cundinamarca. History Indigenous civilization The Pijao inhabited the southern parts of Tolima during pre-Columbian times. The name of the department comes from the Pijao word for "snowed". The Panche, of the same linguistic family as the Pijao, populated the northern regions of Tolima, close to the Magdalena Valley. Renowned as fierce warriors, the Panche were widely known for fighting the Muisca over the control of emerald mining territories. They fought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Líbano, Tolima
Líbano is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia. The population of the municipality was estimated at 36,231 as of 2020. Along with Honda, Líbano is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano–Honda. History Before the arrival of Europeans, the Panches, Pantagoras, Bledos, and Marquetones lived in the region. They were among the tribes most feared by the Muisca. Their society was an aristocratic hierarchy headed by a chief. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers from Antioquia explored south in search of vacant land, and mines, to be acquired by degrees of effort and incorporated into the national economy. A caravan of Antioqueños led by Isidro Parra, found a valley planted with cedars and oaks, and constructed a few huts. The hamlet was named Líbano, the Spanish word for Lebanon. The layout of the built-up area of Líbano was organized as a village in 1886. Since 1900, Líbano developed as an important village, pushing dirt roads in all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Honda, Tolima
Honda () is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia. The population of the municipality was 24,693 as of the census 2018. Along with Líbano, Honda is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano-Honda. The main industries of Honda are tourism, fishing, and cattle-ranching. Toponymy (name origin) Honda takes its name from the Ondaimas, the indigenous people that inhabited the banks of the Magdalena River and the region where the city lies today. Honda is called "the City of Bridges" with more than 40 of them on the rivers Magdalena, Gualí, Guarinó, and Quebrada Seca. It is also called the "City of Peace" as it escaped most of the violence of the 1950s. History Honda was founded on August 24, 1539 by Francisco Nuñez Pedroso. The "golden age" of the city was between 1850 and 1910 when the Magdalena river constituted the only means of transportation between the Caribbean coast and the inland city of Bogotá. The city was the main river port of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity, that have traditional hierarchical structures. An ecclesiastical province consists of several dioceses (or eparchies), one of them being the archdiocese (or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province. In the Greco-Roman world, ''ecclesia'' (; ) was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as Pythagoras, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs. This is the meaning taken in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (the Septuagint), and later adopted by the Christian community to refer to the assembly of believers. In the history of Western world (sometimes more precisely as Greco-Roman world) adopted by the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Roman Catholic Dioceses In Colombia
The Diocese, diocesan system of Roman Catholic church government in Colombia comprises thirteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 52 dioceses and 13 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop. List of Dioceses Ecclesiastical province of Barranquilla *Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barranquilla, Archdiocese of Barranquilla **Roman Catholic Diocese of El Banco, Diocese of El Banco **Roman Catholic Diocese of Riohacha, Diocese of Riohacha **Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Marta, Diocese of Santa Marta **Roman Catholic Diocese of Valledupar, Diocese of Valledupar Ecclesiastical province of Bogotá *Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá **Roman Catholic Diocese of Engativá, Diocese of Engativá **Roman Catholic Diocese of Facatativá, Diocese of Facatativá **Roman Catholic Diocese of Fontibón, Diocese of Fontibón **Roman Catholic Diocese of Girardot, Diocese of Girardot **Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
José Luis Serna Alzate
José Luis Serna Alzate (17 February 193628 September 2014) was a Catholic Church bishop. Born in the Second Spanish Republic town of Aranzazu on 17 February 1936, José Luis Serna Alzate was ordination, ordained a priesthood in the Catholic Church, Catholic priest on 23 December 1961. On 15 November 1978, Serna Alzate was appointed as both the apostolic vicariate, vicar apostolic of Florencia, Caquetá in Colombia, as well as the titular bishop of Cartennae. His next appointments were as bishops in the Catholic Church, bishop of Florencia on 9 December 1985, and then as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano–Honda in the Tolima Department of Colombia. Serna Alzate resigned on 12 July 2002, and died twelve years later on 28 September 2014. Notes 1936 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Colombia 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Colombia apostolic vicars 20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops {{Colombia-RC-bishop-stub Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rafael Arcadio Bernal Supelano
Rafael Arcadio Bernal Supelano C.Ss.R. (28 November 1934 – 11 January 2019) was a Colombian Roman Catholic bishop. Early life Bernal Supelano was born in Colombia and was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. He served as titular bishop of Amundrasa and as bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Sibundoy, Colombia, from 1978 to 1990. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arauca The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arauca () is a diocese located in the city of Arauca, Arauca, Arauca in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona, Nueva Pamplona in Colombia. History *26 May 1915: Established as ..., Colombia, from 1990 to 2003 and as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Libano–Honda, Colombia, from 2003 to 2004. Notes 1934 births 2019 deaths People from Zipaquirá 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Colombia Redemptorist bishops 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Colombia Roman Catholic bishops of Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez
José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez (born 24 April 1961 in Bogotá) is a Roman Catholic clergyman and metropolitan archbishop of Manizales. Priesthood Upon discovering his religious vocation in 1979, he entered the Major Seminary of Manizales, where he studied Philosophy and Theology. The Archbishop of Manizales, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez, consecrated him as a priest on 2 February 1987. After his ordination, he went to Italy, to study at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome, and obtained the Bachelor of Sacred Scripture degree. Upon his return to Colombia in 1992, he began his pastorate. During his years as pastor, he held the positions of Parish Vicar of the Parish of the Immaculate Conception in Aguadas and University Chaplain in the Archdiocese of Manizales. In 1993 he became the Parish Priest of the Municipality of Neira. In 1997 he was Parish Priest of the Basilica Minor La Inmaculada Concepción of Salamina and Episcopal Vicar of the North Zone of the Archdio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
