This is the list of
cathedrals
A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...
in
Colombia
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sorted by
denomination.
Roman Catholic
Cathedrals of the
Roman Catholic Church in Colombia:
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in
Apartadó
Apartadó () is a town and municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia.
"Apartadó" means "river of plantains" in the local Indian language. The town is located near the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Urabá, the economy is based in banan ...
* Cathedral of St. Barbara in
Arauca
* Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Armenia
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* Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in
Barrancabermeja
Barrancabermeja is a city in Colombia, located on the shore of the Magdalena River, in the western part of the department of Santander. It is home to the largest oil refinery in the country, under direct management of ECOPETROL. Barrancabermeja ...
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Metropolitan Cathedral of Queen Mary in
Barranquilla
Barranquilla () is the capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean Coast region; as of 2018 it had a population of 1,206,319, making it Col ...
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Primatial Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
* Cathedral of the Holy Family in
Bucaramanga
Bucaramanga () is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 68 ...
* Cathedral of St. Bonaventure in
Buenaventura
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Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in
Buga
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Places
* Mount Buga, an inactive volcano in Zamboanga del Sur province, the Philippines
* Buga (barangay), a barangay in San Miguel Municipality, Bulacan, Philippines
* Buga, Valle del Cauca, city and municipality in the Colom ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercies in
Caldas
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Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in
Santiago de Cali
Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...
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Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in
Cartagena de Indias
Cartagena ( , also ), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, bordering the Caribbean sea. Cartagena's past role as a link ...
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Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen in
Cartago
* Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in
Chiquinquirá
Chiquinquirá is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Western Boyacá Province. Located some 115 km north of Bogotá, Chiquinquirá is above sea level and has a yearly average temp ...
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Cathedral of St. Joseph in
Cúcuta
Cúcuta (), officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is located in the homonymous valley, at the foot of the Eastern ...
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Cathedral of St. Lawrence in
Duitama
Duitama () is a city and municipality in the department of Boyacá. It is the capital of the Tundama Province. Duitama is located northeast of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia and northeast of Tunja, the capital Boyacá. Duitama has ex ...
* Co-Cathedral of St. Martin in
Sogamoso
Sogamoso () is a city in the department of Boyacá of Colombia. It is the capital of the Sugamuxi Province, named after the original Sugamuxi. Sogamoso is nicknamed "City of the Sun", based on the original Muisca tradition of pilgrimage and ador ...
* Catedral Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria in
El Banco
El Banco (literally meaning River bank in Spanish) is a Colombian Municipality and town located in the southernmost part of the Magdalena Department by the Magdalena River.
Climate
El Banco has a tropical monsoon climate
An area of tropical mo ...
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Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in
Engativá
Engativá is the 10th locality of Bogotá. It is located in the west of the city. This district is mostly inhabited by lower middle and working class residents.
Etymology
Engativá is either derived from ''Ingativá''; ''cacique'' Inga; "Land ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Rosary in
Espinal
* Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in
Facatativá
Facatativá is a city and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department, located about 18 miles (31 km) northwest of Bogotá, Colombia and 2,586 meters above sea level. The city is known for its Archaeological Park Piedras del Tunjo (Rocks ...
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in
Florencia
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Cathedral of St. James the Apostle in
Fontibón
Fontibon is the 9th locality of Bogotá. It is located in the west of the city. This district is mostly inhabited by low and middle class residents.
Etymology
The origin of the city's name can be traced to the Muisca ''cacique Huintiva'' or '' ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in
Garagoa
Garagoa () is a town and municipality in Colombia, located in the Boyacá Department. It covers an area of 191.75 km2 and the urban centre is located at an altitude of above sea level. Parts of the municipality reach altitudes of . It is the ...
* Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in
Garzón
* Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in
Girardot
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in
Girardota
Girardota is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Girardota is part of The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under d ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in
Granada
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* Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Guapi
* Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Ibagué
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* Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in
Inírida
* Cathedral of St. Peter Martyr in
Ipiales
Ipiales is a city and Catholic bishopric in Nariño Department, southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador. It is located at around , with an elevation of about 2950 m. Ipiales is located on the high plateau called "Tuquerres e Ipiales," t ...
* Cathedral of St. Paul the Apostle in
Istmina
Istmina is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia. The town of Istmina was founded in 1834 by Juan Nepomuceno Mosquera, initially with the name of San Pablo. The name was changed in 1903 to Istmina, a contraction of isthmus a ...
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Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in
Tadó
Tadó () is a municipality and town in the Chocó Department, Colombia.
Climate
Tadó has an extremely wet tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type us ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy in
Jericó
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in
La Dorada
* Co-Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in
Guaduas
Guaduas () is a town in Colombia, in the Lower Magdalena Province department of Cundinamarca, about 117 km from Bogotá. It is an agricultural and tourist center of some importance with a population of about 41,000. Its name refers to a ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in
Leticia
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in
Líbano
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Candelaria in
Magangue
* Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Málaga
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* Co-Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Soatá
Soatá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia. Soatá is located on the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range, at the northeast end of the Department of Boyacá. It is the capital of the Northern Boyacá P ...
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Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Rosary in
Manizales
Manizales () is a city in central Colombia. It is the capital of the Caldas Department, Department of Caldas, and lies near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.
Currently, the city is the main center for the production of Colombian coffee and an importa ...
* Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in
Medellín
Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...
* Cathedral of St. Alphonsus de Ligouri in
Sibundoy
Sibundoy (Camsá: Tabanok "village") is a town and municipality in the Putumayo Department of the Republic of Colombia.
The town existed well before the Spanish came in 1534. The Inca, under Huayna Cápac, conquered the local people in 1492 and ...
* Co-Cathedral of St. Michael in
Mocoa
Mocoa () (Kamsá: Shatjok) is a municipality and capital city of the department of Putumayo in Colombia.
The city is located in the northwest of the Putumayo department
Putumayo () is a department of Southern Colombia. It is in the south-w ...
* Cathedral of the Holy Cross in
Montelíbano
Montelíbano is a town and municipality located in the Córdoba Department of Colombia. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Montelíbano.
Montelíbano is host of one of the largest ferronickel mines, the Cerro Matoso mine
The Ce ...
* Cathedral of St. Jerome in
Montería
Montería () is a municipality and city located in northern Colombia and is the capital of the Departments of Colombia, Department of Córdoba Department, Córdoba. The city is located away from the Caribbean sea, by the Sinú River. The city an ...
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Neiva
Neiva () is the capital of the Department of Huila. It is located in the valley of the Magdalena River in south central Colombia with a population of about 357,392 inhabitants. It is one of the most important cities in southern Colombia, mainly ...
* Cathedral of St. Clare in
Pamplona
Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region.
Lying at near above ...
* Military Cathedral of Jesus Christ Redeemer in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
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Cathedral of St. Ann in
Ocaña
* Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Rosario del Palmar in
Palmira
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Catedral de San Ezequiel Moreno Díaz in
San Juan de Pasto
Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto (; "Saint John of Pasto"), is the capital of the department of Nariño, in southern Colombia. Pasto was founded in 1537 and named after indigenous people of the area. In the 2018 census, the city had app ...
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Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Pobreza in
Pereira Pereira (Portuguese and Galician for "pear tree") may refer to:
People
* Pereira (surname)
Places
*Brazil
**Pereira (Bahia) (est. 1534) in the present-day Barra neighborhood of Salvador in Bahia
**Pereira Barreto, municipality in São Paulo
**Pe ...
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Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in
Popayán
Popayán () is the capital of the Colombian departments of Colombia, department of Cauca Department, Cauca. It is located in southwestern Colombia between the Cordillera Occidental (Colombia), Western Mountain Range and Cordillera Central (Colo ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in
Puerto Carreño
Puerto Carreño () is the departmental capital, and a municipality, of the department of Vichada in the Llanos of Colombia.
History
In 1913 the Colombian government created the province (comisaria) of Vichada and it was decided that its capital ...
* Cathedral of Mary Mother of the Church in
Puerto Gaitan
* Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in
Quibdó
Quibdó () is the capital city of Chocó Department, in Western Colombia, and is located on the Atrato River. The municipality of Quibdó has an area of 3,337.5 km² and a population of 129,237, predominantly Afro Colombian, including Zambo C ...
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Catedral Nuestra Señora de los Remedios in
Riohacha
Riohacha (; Wayuu: ) is a city in the Riohacha Municipality in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia by the mouth of the Ranchería River and the Caribbean Sea. It is the capital city of the La Guajira Department. It has a sandy beach waterf ...
* Cathedral of the Holy Family in
San Andrés
* Cathedral of St. Joseph in
San José del Guaviare
San José del Guaviare () is a town and municipality in Colombia, capital of the department of Guaviare by the Guaviare River
The Guaviare is a tributary of the Orinoco in Colombia. It flows together with the upper Orinoco (until here also ca ...
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Catedral Basílica Metropolitana in
Santa Fe de Antioquia
Santa Fe de Antioquia is a municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. The city is located approximately north of Medellín, the department capital. It has a population of approximately 23,000 inhabitants.
History
Founded in 1541 by ...
* Cathedral-Basilica of St. Martha in
Santa Marta
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in
Santa Rosa de Osos
Santa Rosa de Osos is a middle city and municipality of Colombia located in the northern of the department of Antioquia. Bounded on the north with the municipalities of Yarumal and Angostura, on the east with Guadalupe and Carolina del Princi ...
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Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in
Sincelejo
Sincelejo () is the capital and largest city of the Colombian department of Sucre. It is also the main city in the denominated '' Región Sabanas'' (Savannas Region), a subdivision of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, and the 23rd largest ci ...
* Catedral de Jesucristo Nuestra Paz in
Soacha
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* Cathedral of Our Lady of Help in
Socorro
* Co-Cathedral of the Holy Cross in
San Gil
San Gil is a town municipality in the Department of Santander in northeastern Colombia, located roughly 300 km (192 mi) from Bogotá and 95 km from the department's capital, Bucaramanga. As of 2020, San Gil had a population of rou ...
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá in
Sonsón
Sonsón is a municipality in the Colombian department of Antioquia. Sonsón is located in Eastern Antioquia. It is one of the seats of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón–Rionegro. Sonsón celebrates "Las Fiestas Del Maíz"- ('Festival o ...
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Co-Cathedral of St. Nicholas in
Rionegro
Rionegro () is a city and Municipalities of Colombia, municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia, located in the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. The official name of the city is "Ciudad Santiago de Arma de Rionegro". Rio Negro means "Black R ...
* Cathedral of St. Louis Betran in
Tibú
Tibú is a municipality and town of Colombia located in the department of Norte de Santander, in the northeast of the country, on the border with Venezuela and on the banks of the Tibú River. It is the 160th most populated town of Colombia, and ...
* Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in
Trinidad
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* Cathedral of St. Andrew in
Tumaco
Tumaco is a port city and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia, by the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the southwestern corner of Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, and experiences a hot tropical climate. Tumaco is inhabited mai ...
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Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle in
Tunja
Tunja () is a city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá. In 2018 it had a population of 172,548 inhabitants. It is the capital of Boyacá department an ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in
Valledupar
Valledupar () is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia. It is the capital of Caesar Department. Its name, ''Valle de Upar'' (Valley of Upar), was established in honor of the Amerindian cacique who ruled the valley; ''Cacique Upar''. ...
* Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows in
Vélez
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in
Villavicencio
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* Cathedral of St. Joseph in
Yopal
Yopal () is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia.
History
During the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the land on which Yopal stands was occupied by the indigenous Achagua people. The ...
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Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in
Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá () is a municipality and city of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Its neighboring municipalities are Cogua and Nemocón to the north; Tocancipá to the east; Tabio, Cajicá and Sopó to the south; and Subachoque and Pacho ...
Anglican
Cathedrals of the
:
* San Pablo Cathedral in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
[http://www.iglesiaepiscopal.org.co/sanpablo/]
See also
*
List of cathedrals
This is a list of cathedrals by country, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in episcopal denominations, such as Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy) and a few prominent churches from non-episcopal denominations commonly referr ...
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Christianity in Colombia
The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) does not collect religious statistics, and accurate reports are difficult to obtain. However, based on various studies and a survey, about 90% of the population adheres to Christianity, th ...
References
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Cathedrals in Colombia
Colombia
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Cathedrals
A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...
Cathedrals
A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...