The Roman Catholic Diocese of Facatativá ( la, Facatativensis) is a diocese located in the northwest of Cundinamarca Department in Colombia. Its see is the city of

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 o ...

; the diocese is part of the ecclesiastical province of

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 ...

in Colombia. The diocesan territory includes the municipalities of Albán,

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, El Rosal,

, Funza,

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, La Vega, Madrid, Mosquera, Nimaima,

Nocaima Nocaima () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Departments of Colombia, department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. It is the oldest settlement in Colombia, and therefore of historical significance. Founded on June 8, 1605, it si ...

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, San Francisco de Sales, Sasaima, Subachoque, Supatá, Tabio, Tenjo, Tobía,

Útica Utica is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia located some 127 kilometers from Bogotá. The village lies at an altitude of 506 meters above sea level and has an average daily temperature of 26 °C. Utica grew from ...

, Vergara, Villeta and

Zipacón Zipacón () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre of Zipacón is situated at an altitude of on the Bogotá savanna, the southern flatlands of the Altipl ...

in Cundinamarca. The diocese is bordered by the Diocese of Zipaquirá to the north, the Dioceses of Engativá and Fontibón to the east, the Diocese of Girardot to the southwest, and the Diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas to the northwest.

History

The Diocese of Facatativá was erected on 16 March 1962 from territory of the

Archdiocese of Bogotá 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 associat ...

and the Diocese of Zipaquirá. Raúl Zambrano Camader was appointed the first bishop of the diocese. In 1971, the Bishops of Zipaquirá and Facatativá agreed to transfer the parishes of La Peña, Topaipí and San Antonio de Aguilera (a rural parish of Topaipí) back to the Diocese of Zipaquirá. On 29 March 1984, the Diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas was erected, including territory ceded from the Diocese of Facatativá and two others.

Seminary

Seminarians from the Diocese of Facatativá attend the Major Seminary of Bogotá.

Bishops

Ordinaries

*Raul Zambrano Camader (26 April 1962 – 18 December 1972) *Hernando Velásquez Lotero (27 April 1973 – 18 May 1985) *Luis Gabriel Romero Franco (15 April 1986 – 13 November 2010) * Luis Antonio Nova Rocha (22 January 2011 – 9 April 2013) * José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez (23 Feb 2015 – 25 April 2021)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Jaime Prieto Amaya, appointed Bishop of Barrancabermeja in 1993

Sources