Diocese of Barrancabermeja
| Diocese of Barrancabermeja | |
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| Country | Colombia |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Bucaramanga |
| Diocesan bishop | Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano SDS |
| founding | 1928 |
| surface | 15,000 km² |
| Parishes | 34 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Residents | 625,690 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Catholics | 449,875 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| proportion of | 71.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 70 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Religious priest | 12 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5,486 |
| Friars | 12 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| Religious sisters | 26 (2018 / AP 2019 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral del Sagrado Corazón |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barrancabermeja ( lat. : Dioecesis Barrancabermeiensis , span. : Diócesis de Barrancabermeja ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Barrancabermeja .
history
Pope Pius XI founded the territorial prelature Río Magdalena with the Apostolic Constitution Dominici gregis regiminis on April 2, 1928 from ceding territories of the dioceses Nueva Pamplona , Santa Marta and Socorro y San Gil . On April 18, 1950, she was raised to the Apostolic Vicariate with the Apostolic Constitution Apostolicis sub plumbo .
It lost part of its territory on October 26, 1962 to the Ocaña diocese . It was raised to the diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Divina Christi Verba and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona as a suffragan diocese.
It became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga on December 14, 1974. Another piece of land it lost on March 29, 1984 to the diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas .
Ordinaries
Prelates of Río Magdalena
- Carlo Ilario Currea SJ (January 8, 1929–1932)
- Raffaello Toro SJ (February 20, 1932-1947)
- Bernardo Arango Henao SJ (1947 - April 18, 1950)
Vicar Apostolic of Barrancabermeja
- Bernardo Arango Henao SJ (April 18, 1950 - October 27, 1962)
Bishops of Barrancabermeja
- Bernardo Arango Henao SJ (October 27, 1962 - December 23, 1983)
- Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo CIM (December 23, 1983 - March 25, 1993, then Archbishop of Ibagué )
- Jaime Prieto Amaya (November 11, 1993 - December 1, 2008, then Bishop of Cúcuta )
- Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano SDS (December 2, 2009 - May 29, 2020)
- Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez (since May 29, 2020)