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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Girardota ( la, Girardotanensis) is a
diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, 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 Roman province, pro ...
located in the city of
Girardota Girardota is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Girardota is part of The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under d ...
in the
Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...
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 ...
in Colombia.


History

* 18 June 1988: Established as Diocese of Girardota from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Medellín


Ordinaries

*Oscar Angel Bernal † (18 Jun 1988 – 4 Jul 1996 Died) *Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta (21 Feb 1998 – 13 May 2005) Appointed, Bishop of
Riohacha Riohacha (; Wayuu: ) is a city in the Riohacha Municipality in the northern Caribbean Region of Colombia by the mouth of the Ranchería River and the Caribbean Sea. It is the capital city of the La Guajira Department. It has a sandy beach waterfr ...
*''Óscar González Villa'' (24 Apr 2006 – 10 Jun 2006) Resigned before episcopal ordination *Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo (11 Jul 2006 – 16 Jul 2009) Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop 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 ...
*Guillermo Orozco Montoya (2 Feb 2010 – present)


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 ...


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Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Medellín Christian organizations established in 1988 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century {{Colombia-RC-diocese-stub