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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán ( la, Popayanensis) is an
archdiocese 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 associate ...
located in the city of
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 ...
in Colombia."Archdiocese of Popayán"
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"Metropolitan Diocese of Popayán"
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History

*22 August 1546: Established as Diocese of Popayán from the Diocese of Panamá *20 June 1900: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán


Ordinaries


Bishops of Popayán

# Juan Valle (27 August 1547 – 1563)"Bishop Juan Valle"
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# Agustín Gormaz Velasco, OSA (1 March 1564 – 1590) # Domingo de Ulloa, OP (9 December 1591 – 3 April 1598),"Bishop Domingo de Ulloa, O.P."
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appointed Bishop of Michoacán, México # Juan de La Roca (5 July 1599 – 7 September 1605) #
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, OSA (17 November 1608 – 14 February 1618)"Bishop Juan Pedro González de Mendoza, O.S.A."
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(2 December 1619 – 27 January 1631), appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru # Feliciano de la Vega Padilla (10 February 1631 – 5 September 1633), appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia #
Diego Montoya Mendoza Diego Montoya Mendoza (23 July 1593 – 14 April 1640) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Trujillo (1637–1640) and Bishop of Popayán (1633–1637). ''(in Latin)'' Biography Diego Montoya Mendoza was born in Mijancas, Spain ...
(5 September 1633 – 5 October 1637, appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru #
Francisco de la Serna Francisco de la Serna, O.E.S.A. (1568 – April 1647) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of La Paz (1645–1647), Bishop of Popayán (1638–1645), and Bishop of Paraguay (1635–1638). ''(in Latin)'' Biography Francisco de la S ...
, OSA (25 August 1637 – 21 August 1645),"Bishop Francisco de la Serna, O.E.S.A."
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appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia #
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(25 February 1658 – 7 June 1666), appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru #
Melchor Liñán y Cisneros Melchor Liñán y Cisneros (sometimes ''Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros'') (December 19, 1629, Madrid – June 28, 1708, Lima, Peru) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1677–1708), Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas (167 ...
(16 January 1668 – 8 February 1672), appointed Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia # Cristóbal Bernardo de Quirós (16 May 1672 – 11 May 1684) #
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(12 August 1686 – 20 February 1696), appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru # Mateo Panduro y Villafaña, OCD (18 June 1696 – 1 October 1714), appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia # Juan Gómez de Neva y Frías (19 November 1714 – 19 November 1725), appointed Bishop of Quito, Ecuador # Juan Francisco Gómez Calleja (19 November 1725 – 9 September 1728) # Manuel Antonio Gómez de Silva (20 September 1728 – 29 September 1731) # Diego Fermín de Vergara, OSA (19 December 1732 – 12 December 1740), appointed Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada # Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria (30 January 1741 – 24 January 1752), appointed Archbishop of Guatemala # Diego del Corro (24 January 1752 – 13 March 1758), appointed Archbishop of Lima, Peru # Jerónimo de Obregón y Mena (13 March 1758 – 14 July 1785) # Angel Velarde y Bustamante (15 September 1788 – 6 July 1809) # Salvador Jiménez y Padilla (8 March 1816 – 13 February 1841) # Fernando Cuero y Caicedo, OFM (23 May 1842 – 7 August 1851) # Pedro Antonio Torres (20 December 1853 – 18 December 1866) # Carlos Bermúdez (13 March 1868 – 6 December 1887) # Juan Buenaventura Ortiz (1 June 1888 – 15 August 1894) # Manuel José Caicedo Martínez (2 December 1895 – 20 June 1900)


Archbishops of Popayán

# Manuel José Caicedo Martínez (20 June 1900 – 14 December 1905), appointed Archbishop of Medellín # Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, CM (18 April 1907 – 31 March 1923) # Maximiliano Crespo Rivera (15 November 1923 – 7 November 1940) # Juan Manuel González Arbeláez (20 June 1942 – 1 February 1944) # Diego María Gómez Tamayo (22 April 1944 – 12 September 1964) # Miguel Angel Arce Vivas (7 April 1965 – 11 October 1976) # Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, CM (11 October 1976 – 11 April 1990) #
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 ...
, PSS (18 December 1990 – 13 February 1997), appointed Archbishop of Medellín # Iván Antonio Marín López (19 April 1997 – 19 May 2018) #
Luis José Rueda Aparicio Luis José Rueda Aparicio (born 3 March 1962) is a Colombian prelate who is Metropolitan Archbishop of Bogotá. He was Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán from 2018 to 2020 and Bishop of Montelíbano from 2012 to 2018. Pope Francis plans to m ...
(19 May 2018 – 25 April 2020), appointed Archbishop of Bogotá # Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P. (12 October 2020 – present)


Other affiliated bishops


Auxiliary bishops

* Antonio Burbano, O.E.S.A. (1837) * Mateo José González Rubio (1839-1845) * José Elías Puyana (1849-1859), appointed Bishop of Pasto * Raúl Zambrano Camader (1956-1962), appointed Bishop of Facatativá * Alfonso Arteaga Yepes (1962-1965), appointed Bishop of Ipiales * Hernando Velásquez Lotero (1971-1973), appointed Bishop of Facatativá *
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 ...
, P.S.S. (1974-1977), appointed Bishop of Chiquinquirá (later returned here as Archbishop)


Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Heladio Posidio Perlaza Ramírez, appointed Bishop of Cali in 1911


Suffragan dioceses

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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 ...
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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 appr ...
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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 ...


See also

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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 ...


References


External links


GCatholic.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Popayan Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Popayán Religious organizations established in the 1540s Roman Catholic dioceses established in the 16th century Popayán