The Episcopal Conference of Colombia is an administrative institution and permanence of the
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, composed of all the bishops of the dioceses of Colombia in a college, in communion with the
Roman Pontiff
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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
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, 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
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is present in 13 locations with groundwater, 52 suffragan dioceses, 10 apostolic vicariate 1 and Military Ordinary:
The Archdiocese of Barranquilla is suffragan dioceses of The Tour Santa Marta and Valledupar Riohacha
The Archdiocese of Bogotá has as suffragan dioceses of Engativá Facatativá Fontibón Soacha and Zipaquirá Girardot
The Archdiocese of Bucaramanga is suffragan diocese of Barrancabermeja Malaga Soatá Socorro and San Gil and Velez
The Archdiocese of Cali diocese is suffragan of Carthage and Palmyra Buga Buenaventura
The
Archdiocese of Cartagena
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cartagena ( la, Carthaginsis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Cartagena in Colombia.Archdiocese of Ibague is suffragan dioceses of Florence Garzón Lebanon Cord-Honda and Neiva
The Archdiocese of Manizales has the suffragan dioceses of La Dorada-Guaduas Armenia and Pereira
The
Archdiocese of Medellín
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has the suffragan dioceses of Caldas Girardota Jericho and Sonson-Rionegro
The Archdiocese of New Pamplona diocese is suffragan of Ocana and Cucuta Tibú Arauca
The Archdiocese of Popayan is suffragan dioceses of Ipiales Mocoa Sibundoy meals and Tumaco
The
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
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de Antioquia is suffragan diocese of Apartado Tado-Istmina Quibdó and Santa Rosa de Osos
The Archdiocese of Tunja is suffragan dioceses of Chiquinquirá Duitama-Sogamoso Garagoa and Yopal
The Archdiocese of Villavicencio is suffragan dioceses of Colombia Granada and San Jose del Guaviare
The Vicariate Apostolic of Guapi, Inirida, Leticia, Mitu Puerto Carreno Puerto Gaitan, San Andres and Providencia, San Vicente, Puerto Leguizamo, Tierradentro and Trinidad are immediately subject to the
Holy See
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The Military Ordinary in Colombia
Presidents
See also
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Catholic Church in Colombia
The Colombian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Colombia, is the branch of the Roman Catholic Church in the South American nation of Colombia.
Organization
It is organized into 13 ecclesiastical provinces, subdivided into 13 archdiocese ...
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...