The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona ( la, Neo-Pampilonensis) is an
archdiocese located in the city of
Nueva Pamplona
Pamplona (pronounced ) is a municipality and city in Norte de Santander, Colombia. It is also the fifth most populated municipality in the department.
History Colonization
The town was founded on 1 November 1549 as Nueva Pamplona del Valle del ...
in Colombia.
History
On 25 September 1835,
Pope Gregory XVI
Pope Gregory XVI ( la, Gregorius XVI; it, Gregorio XVI; born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari; 18 September 1765 – 1 June 1846) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in 1 June 1846. He ...
established the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona from the
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada. It was then a
suffragan of the
Archdiocese of Bogotá. The first bishop,
José Jorge Torres Estans, a native of
Cartagena, ruled from 30 August 1837, to 17 April 1853, when he died at the age of 81, an exile in San
Antonio del Fáchira,
Venezuela
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. His successor,
José Luis Niño, named vicar Apostolic, was consecrated in October, 1856, and also died an exile in San Antonio del Fáchira, 12 February 1864. The third bishop,
Bonifacio Antonio Toscano, governed from 13 October 1865, to his retirement in 1873. He convoked the first diocesan synod, and assisted at the Provincial Council of New Granada in 1868 and at the
First Vatican Council.
Indalecio Barreto succeeded him 3 December 1874, and died 19 March 1875, at
La Vega near
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 ...
. The
Bishop of Panamá,
Ignacio Antonio Parra, his successor, ruled from 8 June 1876, until his death, 21 February 1908. Bishop Parra had been exiled by the Liberal government from 1877 to 1878.
Evaristo Blanco was transferred from the Diocese of Socorro, 15 August 1909.
It was elevated to an archdiocese on 29 May 1956.
Bishops
* Bishops of Nueva Pamplona
**
José Jorge de Torres y Estans † (21 Nov 1836 – 19 Apr 1853) Died
**
José Luis Niño † (27 May 1856 – 19 Apr 1864) Died
**
Bonifacio Antonio Toscano † (16 Dec 1864 – 18 Nov 1873) Resigned
**
Indalecio Barreto † (16 Jan 1874 – 20 Mar 1875) Died
**
Ignacio Antonio Parra † (17 Sep 1875 – 21 Feb 1908) Died
**
Evaristo Blanco † (27 Mar 1909 – 15 Sep 1915) Died
**
Rafael Afanador y Cadena † (5 Jun 1916 – 29 May 1956) Resigned
*
Archbishops of Nueva Pamplona
**
Bernardo Botero Álvarez, C.M. † (29 May 1956 – 28 Jun 1959) Died
**
Aníbal Muñoz Duque † (3 Aug 1959 – 27 Mar 1968) Appointed, Apostolic Administrator of
Bogotá; future Cardinal
**
Alfredo Rubio Diaz † (27 Mar 1968 – 28 Feb 1978) Resigned
**
Mario Revollo Bravo † (28 Feb 1978 – 25 Jun 1984) Appointed, Archbishop of Bogotá; future Cardinal
**
Rafael Sarmiento Peralta † (12 Jan 1985 – 21 Jun 1994) Resigned
**
Víctor Manuel López Forero (21 Jun 1994 – 27 Jun 1998) Appointed, Archbishop of
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 6 ...
**
Gustavo Martínez Frías † (18 Mar 1999 – 29 Aug 2009) Died
**
Luis Madrid Merlano (30 Mar 2010 – 6 June 2018)
**
Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto (15 October 2019 – present)
Auxiliary bishops
*
José de Jesús Martinez Vargas † (1949-1951), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá
*
Jaime Cristóbal Abril González
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...
(2016-2019), appointed Bishop of Arauca
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
*
Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa, appointed Bishop of Montería in 2012
Suffragan dioceses
*
Arauca
*
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 ...
*
Ocaña
*
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 ...
See also
*
Roman Catholicism 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 archdioceses ...
Notes
External links
Catholic Hierarchy
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Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Nueva Pamplona
Religious organizations established in 1835
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
1835 establishments in the Republic of New Granada
1835 in Colombia