Archdiocese of Barranquilla
| Archdiocese of Barranquilla | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Colombia |
| Diocesan bishop | Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt |
| founding | 1932 |
| surface | 3,386 km² |
| Parishes | 148 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 3,104,935 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 2,173,455 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 70% |
| Diocesan priest | 140 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 40 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 12,075 |
| Friars | 74 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 309 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana de María Reina |
| Co-cathedral | Pro-Catedral de San Nicolás de Tolentino |
| Website | www.arquidiocesisbaq.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
El Banco Riohacha Santa Marta Valledupar |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barranquilla ( lat. : Archidioecesis Barranquillensis , span. : Arquidiócesis de Barranquilla ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Barranquilla . It includes the Colombian Department of Atlántico .
history
Pope Pius XI founded it on July 7, 1932 with the bull Maxime quidem from cession of territory of the Archdiocese of Cartagena , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
With the Apostolic Constitution Recta rerum it was raised on April 25, 1969 to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishopric .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Barranquilla
- Luis Calixto Leiva Charry (November 21, 1933 - May 16, 1939)
- Julio Caicedo Téllez SDB (June 26, 1942 - February 23, 1948, then Bishop of Cali )
- Jesús Antonio Castro Becerra (August 19, 1948 - December 18, 1952, then Bishop of Palmira )
- Francisco Pérez Gallego (February 3, 1953 - December 18, 1958, then Bishop of Cali )
- Germán Villa Gaviria CIM (February 3, 1959 - April 25, 1969)
Archbishops of Barranquilla
- Germán Villa Gaviria CIM (April 25, 1969 - May 11, 1987)
- Felix Maria Torres Parra (May 11, 1987 - March 18, 1999)
- Jesús Rubén Salazar Gómez (March 18, 1999 - July 8, 2010, then Archbishop of Bogotá)
- Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve (November 13, 2010 - November 14, 2017)
- Pablo Emiro Salas Anteliz (since November 14, 2017)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1950 | 320,000 | 330,500 | 96.8 | 66 | 21st | 45 | 4,848 | 94 | 268 | 22nd | |
| 1959 | 550,000 | 587.960 | 93.5 | 78 | 33 | 45 | 7,051 | 98 | 295 | 30th | |
| 1965 | 607.429 | 723,609 | 83.9 | 108 | 57 | 51 | 5,624 | 126 | 479 | 45 | |
| 1970 | 800,000 | 868,000 | 92.2 | 111 | 53 | 58 | 7.207 | 113 | 550 | 53 | |
| 1976 | 1,050,000 | 1,100,000 | 95.5 | 115 | 52 | 63 | 9.130 | 120 | 560 | 59 | |
| 1980 | 1,130,000 | 1,215,000 | 93.0 | 107 | 53 | 54 | 10,560 | 96 | 522 | 59 | |
| 1990 | 1,453,000 | 1,713,000 | 84.8 | 123 | 70 | 53 | 11,813 | 83 | 552 | 66 | |
| 1999 | 1,402,535 | 2,081,038 | 67.4 | 141 | 103 | 38 | 9,947 | 50 | 474 | 70 | |
| 2000 | 1,800,000 | 2,250,000 | 80.0 | 157 | 109 | 48 | 11,464 | 61 | 474 | 80 | |
| 2001 | 1,930,000 | 2,380,000 | 81.1 | 173 | 125 | 48 | 11,156 | 59 | 456 | 110 | |
| 2002 | 2,050,000 | 2,420,000 | 84.7 | 178 | 119 | 59 | 11,516 | 80 | 346 | 112 | |
| 2003 | 2,000,000 | 2,460,000 | 81.3 | 180 | 121 | 59 | 11,111 | 83 | 323 | 113 | |
| 2004 | 1,985,000 | 2,452,000 | 81.0 | 173 | 114 | 59 | 11,473 | 80 | 326 | 117 | |
| 2006 | 2,051,000 | 2,533,000 | 81.0 | 165 | 117 | 48 | 12,430 | 68 | 444 | 120 | |
See also
Web links
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