The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasto ( la, Dioecesis Pastopolitana) is a

diocese 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 associ ...

located in the city of

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 app ...

in the

Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of sev ...

of Popayán in Colombia.

History

*10 April 1859: Established as Diocese of Pasto from the Diocese of Popayán

Ordinaries

*José Elías Puyana † (15 Apr 1859 – 20 Nov 1864) Died *Juan Manuel García Tejada † (6 Jan 1866 – 23 Oct 1869) Died *Manuel Canuto Restrepo † (21 Mar 1870 – 1881) Resigned *Ignacio León Velasco, S.J. † (15 Mar 1883 – 27 May 1889) Appointed, Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada *Joaquín Pardo y Vergara † (4 Jun 1891 – 1 Feb 1892) Appointed, Bishop of

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*Manuel José Caicedo Martínez † (1 Feb 1892 – 2 Dec 1895) Appointed, Bishop of Popayán * St. Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz, O.A.R. † (2 Dec 1895 – 19 Aug 1906) Died *Adolfo Perea † (16 Dec 1907 – Apr 1911) Died *Leonidas Medina † (23 Jan 1912 – 27 Mar 1916) Appointed, Auxiliary Bishop 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 ...

*Antonio María Pueyo de Val, C.M.F. † (26 Nov 1917 – 9 Oct 1929) Died *Hipólito Leopoldo Agudelo † (2 Sep 1930 – 23 May 1933) Died *Diego María Gómez Tamayo † (1 Feb 1934 – 22 Apr 1944) Appointed, Archbishop of Popayán *Emilio Botero González † (30 Aug 1947 – 21 Aug 1961) Died *Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo,

C.I.M. The Congregation of Jesus and Mary (), abbreviated CIM also known as the Eudists (Latin: ''Congregatio Eudistarum''), is a society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men in the Catholic Church. It was established in March 25, 1643 by Sai ...

† (21 Nov 1961 – 1 Jul 1976) Died * Arturo Salazar Mejia, O.A.R. † (3 Jan 1977 – 2 Feb 1995) Resigned *Julio Enrique Prado Bolaños (2 Feb 1995 – 1 Oct 2020) Retired *Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro (1 Oct 2020 – present)

Auxiliary bishops

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 ...

(1955–1959) Appointed, Bishop of Monteria; future Cardinal * Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo, C.I.M. (1960-1961), appointed Bishop here

Sources

External links

GCatholic.org
Roman Catholic dioceses in Colombia Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Popayán Religious organizations established in 1859 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century 1859 establishments in the Granadine Confederation {{Colombia-RC-diocese-stub

History

Ordinaries

Auxiliary bishops

See also

Sources

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