Diocese of San José del Guaviare
| Diocese of San José del Guaviare | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Colombia |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Villavicencio |
| Diocesan bishop | Nelson Jair Cardona Ramírez |
| founding | 1989 |
| surface | 42,327 km² |
| Parishes | 15 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Residents | 126,600 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Catholics | 121,000 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2015 ) |
| proportion of | 95.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 16 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 7,563 |
| Permanent deacons | 1 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Friars | 2 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 9 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral San José |
| Website | http://www.diocesisdelguaviare.org |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San José del Guaviare ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi a Guaviare , span. : Diócesis de San José del Guaviare ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in San José del Guaviare .
history
The diocese of San José del Guaviare was established on January 19, 1989 by Pope John Paul II from cession of the Apostolic Prefecture of Mitú as the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Guaviare .
On October 29, 1999, the Apostolic Vicariate of San José del Guaviare was raised to a diocese by John Paul II and placed under the Archdiocese of Bogotá as a suffragan . The diocese of San José del Guaviare was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Villavicencio as a suffragan on July 3, 2004 .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of San José del Guaviare
- Belarmino Correa Yepes MXY , 1989-1999
Bishops of San José del Guaviare
- Belarmino Correa Yepes MXY, 1999-2006
- Guillermo Orozco Montoya , 2006–2010, then Bishop of Girardota
- Francisco Antonio Nieto Súa , 2011–2015, then Bishop of Engativá
- Nelson Jair Cardona Ramírez , since 2016