Episcopal Conference of Colombia | |
Native Name: | Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia |
Abbreviation: | CEC |
Formation: | 14 September 1908 |
Type: | Episcopal conference |
Status: | Civil nonprofit |
Region Served: | Colombia |
Membership: | Active and retired Catholic bishops of the Colombia |
Language: | Spanish |
Leader Title: | President |
Leader Name: | Luis José Rueda Aparicio |
Main Organ: | Conference |
The Episcopal Conference of Colombia is an administrative institution and permanence of the Catholic Church, composed of all the bishops of the dioceses of Colombia in a college, in communion with the Roman Pontiff and under his authority to exercise set of certain pastoral functions of the episcopate on the faithful of their territory under the rule of law and statutes, in order to promote the life of the Church, to strengthen its mission of evangelization and respond more effectively to the greater good that the Church should seek to men.
The Catholic Church is organised into 13 archdioceses, 52 suffragan dioceses, 10 apostolic vicariates and one military ordinariate. The archdiocese and dioceses are:
The apostolic vicariates are Guapi, Inírida, Leticia, Mitú, Puerto Carreño, Puerto Gaitán, Puerto Leguízamo-Solano, San Andrés y Providencia, Tierradentro and Trinidad. By their nature, they are direct subject to the Holy See.
Finally, there is the Military Ordinariate of Colombia.
No. | President | See | Term | |
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1 | Bernardo Herrera Restrepo | Bogotá | 1908–1928 | |
2 | Ismael Perdomo Borrero | Bogotá | 1928–1950 | |
3 | Crisanto Luque Sánchez | Bogotá | 1950–1959 | |
4 | Luis Concha Córdoba | Bogotá | 1959–1964 | |
5 | Aníbal Muñoz Duque | Nueva PamplonaBogotá | 1964–1972 | |
6 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez | GarzónManizales | 1972–1978 | |
7 | Mario Revollo Bravo | Nueva Pamplona | 1978–1984 | |
8 | Héctor Rueda Hernández | Bucaramanga | 1984–1987 | |
9 | Alfonso López Trujillo | Medellín | 1987–1990 | |
10 | Pedro Rubiano Sáenz | CaliBogotá | 1990–1996 | |
11 | Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo | PopayánMedellín | 1996–2002 | |
12 | Pedro Rubiano Sáenz | Bogotá | 2002–2005 | |
13 | Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga | Tunja | 2005–2008 | |
14 | Rubén Salazar Gómez | Barranquilla Bogotá | 2008–2014 | |
15 | Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga | Tunja | 2014–2017 | |
16 | Oscar Urbina Ortega | Villavicencio | 2017–2021 | |
17 | Luis José Rueda Aparicio | Bogotá | 2017–2021 |