The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manizales ( la, Manizalensis) is an

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located in the city of

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 ...

in Colombia.

History

* 11 April 1900: Established as Diocese of Manizales from the Diocese of Medellín * 10 May 1954: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Manizales

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: **Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in

**Basílica Nuestra Señora de las Victorias in

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Ordinaries

* Bishops of Manizales ** Gregorio Nazianzeno Hoyos † (16 Dec 1901 – 25 Oct 1921) Died **

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† (6 Jul 1922 – 7 Jul 1932) Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of

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 ...

** Juan Manuel González Arbeláez † (3 Jul 1933 – 6 Jun 1934) Appointed, Titular Archbishop of Aenus **

Luis Concha Córdoba Luis Concha Córdoba (November 7, 1891—September 18, 1975) was a Colombian priest and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Concha served as Archbishop of Bogotá from 1959 to 1972, before his elevation to the cardinalate in ...

† (13 Jul 1935 – 10 May 1954) ''see below''; future Cardinal * Archbishops of Manizales **Luis Concha Córdoba † (10 May 1954 – 18 May 1959) ''see above''; Appointed, Archbishop 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 ...

(Cardinal in 1961) **

Arturo Duque Villegas The Most Revd Arturo Duque Villegas (27 November 1899 – 26 July 1977) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manizales in Colombia from 1959 to 1975. See also * Episcopal Conference of Colombia * Manizales * Monsignor Monsignor (; it, mon ...

† (7 Jul 1959 – 22 May 1975) Retired **

José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez José de Jesús Horacio Pimiento Rodríguez (; 18 February 1919 – 3 September 2019) was a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Montería from 1959 to 1964, Bishop of Garzón-Neiva from 1964 to 1975, and finally ...

† (22 May 1975 – 15 Oct 1996) Resigned (became a Cardinal on 14 February 2015) **

Fabio Betancur Tirado Fabio Betancur Tirado (October 30, 1938 – November 20, 2011) was a Colombian ecclesiastic of the Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of Medellín, later became the first bishop of the diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas and later was ar ...

† (15 Oct 1996 Appointed – 7 Oct 2010) Resigned **

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(7 Oct 2010 – 6 Jan 2020) previously Coadjutor Archbishop; resigned **

José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez (born 24 April 1961 in Bogotá) is a Roman Catholic clergyman and archbishop of Manizales. Priesthood Upon discovering his religious vocation in 1979, he entered the Major Seminary of Manizales, where he studied ...

(25 Apr 2021 Appointed – present)

Coadjutor archbishop

(2009-2010)

Auxiliary bishops

* Baltasar Álvarez Restrepo † (1949-1952), appointed Bishop of Pereira * Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, C.M. † (1968-1972), appointed Bishop of Montería *

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† (1953-1957), appointed Bishop of Sonsón *

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† (1957-1960), appointed Bishop of Jericó

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Rubén Isaza Restrepo Monsignor Rubén Isaza Restrepo was the first apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Ibagué, leading it from 1960 to 1964. Biography He was, at the time, the youngest bishop in Colombia since he was Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena, who began t ...

† , appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena in 1952 *

Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo PSS (October 7, 1934 – July 21, 2021) was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, prelate, and member of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice. Giraldo served as the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiq ...

(priest here, 1958–1960), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán in 1974 *

, appointed Bishop of Líbano-Honda in 2004 *

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† , appointed Bishop of Girardota in 2006 (did not take effect) *

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† , appointed Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán in 2014 *

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, appointed Bishop of Málaga-Soatá in 2016

Suffragan dioceses

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* La Dorada–Guaduas * Pereira

Sources

External links

Catholic Hierarchy

Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Manizales Christian organizations established in 1900 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century Manizales {{Colombia-RC-diocese-stub