Diocese of Cúcuta
| Diocese of Cúcuta | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Colombia |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona |
| Diocesan bishop | Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Julio César Vidal Ortiz |
| founding | 1956 |
| surface | 2,200 km² |
| Parishes | 102 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 926,918 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 842,442 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 90.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 134 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 31 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5.106 |
| Permanent deacons | 6 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 38 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 118 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de San José |
| Website | http://www.diocesisdecucuta.com |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cúcuta ( Latin Dioecesis Cucutensis , Spanish diócesis de Cúcuta ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Cucuta .
history
The diocese of Cúcuta was on May 29, 1956 by Pope Pius XII. Erected from cessions of territory of the diocese of Nueva Pamplona and the dissolved Apostolic Prefecture Labateca . It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona as a suffragan .
Bishops of Cúcuta
- Luis Pérez Hernández CIM , 1956-1959
- Pablo Correa León , 1959-1970
- Pedro Rubiano Sáenz , 1971–1983, then coadjutor archbishop of Cali
- Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo PSS , 1983–1990, then Archbishop of Popayán
- Rubén Salazar Gómez , 1992–1999, then Archbishop of Barranquilla
- Óscar Urbina Ortega , 1999–2007, then Archbishop of Villavicencio
- Jaime Prieto Amaya , 2008-2010
- Julio César Vidal Ortiz , 2011–2015
- Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid , since 2015
