The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florencia ( la, Florentiae) is an
archdiocese
In 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 provinces were administratively associate ...
located in the city of
Florencia, Caquetá in Colombia.
On Saturday, April 27, 2013,
Pope Francis appointed
Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florencia ( la, Florentiae) is an archdiocese located in the city of Florencia, Caquetá in Colombia.
On Saturday, April 27, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo, a priest of the Roman ...
, a priest of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón - Rionegro, Colombia, who up until then had been serving as
rector
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*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of the national major
seminary "Christ the Priest" in
La Ceja, Colombia, as the sixth ordinary and fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia.
He succeeded Bishop
Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto
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, who had served from 2003 until his July 2011 appointment by
Pope Benedict XVI as bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos in
Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia.
On July 13, 2019, Florencia was raised to a metropolitan archdiocese, so Giraldo became an archbishop then.
History
* 8 February 1951: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia from the
Apostolic Vicariate of Caquetá
* 9 December 1985: Promoted as Diocese of Florencia
* 13 July 2019: Elevated as Archdiocese of Florencia
Ordinaries
* Vicars Apostolic of Florencia
**Antonio Torasso (10 January 1952 – 22 October 1960)
**
Angelo Cuniberti (18 April 1961 – 15 November 1978)
**
José Luis Serna Alzate (15 November 1978 – 9 December 1985)
* Bishops of Florencia
**José Luis Serna Alzate (9 December 1985 – 8 July 1989), appointed Bishop of Líbano-Honda
**Fabián Marulanda López (22 December 1989 – 19 July 2002)
**Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto (21 January 2003 – 15 July 2011), appointed bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos by
Pope Benedict XVI
** Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (27 April 2013 – 13 July 2019); elevated to metropolitan archbishop
* Archbishops of Florencia
** Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (since 13 July 2019)
Suffragan dioceses
*
Diocese of Mocoa–Sibundoy
*
Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán
See also
*
Roman Catholicism in Colombia
Sources
External links
Catholic Hierarchy Diocese website
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Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Florencia
Christian organizations established in 1951
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
Florencia, Caquetá
1951 establishments in Colombia