The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florencia () is an

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located in the city of

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in Colombia. On Saturday, April 27, 2013,

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appointed

Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florencia () is an archdiocese located in the city of Florencia, Caquetá in Colombia. On Saturday, April 27, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo, a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese o ...

, a priest of the

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, Colombia, who up until then had been serving as rector of the national major

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"Christ the Priest" in

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, as the sixth ordinary and fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia. He succeeded Bishop

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, who had served from 2003 until his July 2011 appointment by

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as bishop of the

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. On July 13, 2019, Florencia was raised to a metropolitan archdiocese, so Giraldo became an archbishop then.

History

* 8 February 1951: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia from the

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* 9 December 1985: Promoted as Diocese of Florencia * 13 July 2019: Elevated as Archdiocese of Florencia

Ordinaries

* Vicars Apostolic of Florencia **Antonio Torasso (10 January 1952 – 22 October 1960) **

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(18 April 1961 – 15 November 1978) **

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(15 November 1978 – 9 December 1985) * Bishops of Florencia **José Luis Serna Alzate (9 December 1985 – 8 July 1989), appointed Bishop of Líbano-Honda **Fabián Marulanda López (22 December 1989 – 19 July 2002) **Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto (21 January 2003 – 15 July 2011), appointed bishop of the

** Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (27 April 2013 – 13 July 2019); elevated to metropolitan archbishop * Archbishops of Florencia ** Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (since 13 July 2019)

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Mocoa–Sibundoy * Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán

Sources

External links

Catholic Hierarchy

Diocese website
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History

Ordinaries

Suffragan dioceses

See also

Sources

External links