The St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral ( es, Catedral de San Francisco de Asís) Also Sincelejo Cathedral Is the name given to a cathedral church belonging to the Catholic Church and consecrated to St. Francis of Assisi. It is located in Santander Square in the city of
Sincelejo (
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 ...
),
capital of the
Department of Sucre
Sucre () is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, and it has a population of 904,863, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia. Sucre is bordered by the Caribbean on the northwest; by Bo ...
.
The cathedral follows the Roman or Latin rite and is the seat of the
Diocese of Sincelejo (''Dioecesis Sinceleiensis'') that was created in 1969 through the bull "Ad Ecclesiam Christi" of
Pope Paul VI.
It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop José Crispiano Clavijo Méndez.
See also
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List of cathedrals in Colombia
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Roman Catholicism in Colombia
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St. Francis of Assisi
References
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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Colombia