Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro
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| Country | Colombia |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Medellín |
| Diocesan bishop | Fidel León Cadavid Marín |
| founding | 1957 |
| surface | 7,300 km² |
| Parishes | 68 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 593,800 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 558,300 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 94% |
| Diocesan priest | 281 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 24 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,830 |
| Permanent deacons | 1 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 131 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 440 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá |
| Co-cathedral | Concatedral de San Nicolás el Magno |
| Website | http://www.diosonrio.org.co/ |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro ( lat. : Dioecesis Sonsonensis-Rivi Nigri , span. : Diócesis de SonSon-Rionegro ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese based in SonSon .
history
The diocese Sonsón-Rionegro was on March 18, 1957 by Pope Pius XII. from the cession of territory by the Archdiocese of Medellín as the Diocese of Sonsón . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Medellín as a suffragan . On April 20, 1968, the Diocese of Sonsón was renamed the Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Sonsón
- Alberto Uribe Urdaneta , 1957–1960, then Bishop of Cali
- Alfredo Rubio Diaz , 1961–1968, then Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona
Bishops of Sonsón-Rionegro
- Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo , 1968-1993
- Flavio Calle Zapata , 1993–2003, then Archbishop Ibagué
- Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo , 2003-2010, then Archbishop of Medellín
- Fidel León Cadavid Marín , since 2011