Archdiocese of Manizales
| Archdiocese of Manizales | |
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| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Colombia |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo |
| founding | 1900 |
| surface | 3,848 km² |
| Parishes | 93 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 863,694 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 839.421 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 97.2% |
| Diocesan priest | 176 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 61 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 3,542 |
| Permanent deacons | 57 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 185 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 470 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Manizales Cathedral |
| Website | www.arquidiocesisdemanizales.com |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Armenia La Dorada-Guaduas Pereira |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manizales ( lat. : Archidioecesis Manizalensis , span. : Arquidiócesis de Manizales ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Manizales . It includes the Colombian department of Caldas and a small part of Risaraldas .
history
Pope Leo XIII. founded it on April 11, 1900 from cession of territory of the Diocese of Medellín and the Archdiocese of Popayán , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. On February 24, 1902, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Medellín.
With the Apostolic Constitution Ob arduum , the previous diocese was on May 10, 1954 by Pope Pius XII. raised to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric.
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- December 17, 1952 to the dioceses of Armenia and Pereira ;
- March 29, 1984 to the diocese of La Dorada-Guaduas .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Manizales
- Gregorio Nazianz Hoyos (May 11, 1901 - October 28, 1921)
- Tiberio de Jesús y Salazar Herrera (July 6, 1922 - July 7, 1932, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Medellín )
- Juan Manoel González Arbeláez (July 3, 1933 - June 6, 1934)
- Luis Concha Córdoba (July 13, 1935 - May 10, 1954)
Archbishops of Manizales
- Luis Concha Córdoba (May 10, 1954 - May 18, 1959, then Archbishop of Bogotá )
- Arturo Duque Villegas (July 7, 1959 - May 23, 1975)
- José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez (May 22, 1975 - October 15, 1996)
- Fabio Betancur Tirado (October 15, 1996 - October 7, 2010)
- Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo (October 7, 2010 - January 6, 2020)
- Sedis vacancy (since January 6, 2020)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1950 | 949,000 | 950,000 | 99.9 | 227 | 167 | 60 | 4,180 | 160 | 702 | 64 | |
| 1965 | 780,000 | 783.201 | 99.6 | 272 | 184 | 88 | 2,867 | 179 | 789 | 57 | |
| 1970 | 749,000 | 750,000 | 99.9 | 268 | 173 | 95 | 2,794 | 140 | 559 | 64 | |
| 1976 | 612.182 | 615.182 | 99.5 | 212 | 161 | 51 | 2,887 | 107 | 925 | 68 | |
| 1980 | 610,556 | 618.177 | 98.8 | 202 | 151 | 51 | 3,022 | 87 | 890 | 69 | |
| 1990 | 549,000 | 556,000 | 98.7 | 183 | 135 | 48 | 3,000 | 8th | 69 | 355 | 62 |
| 1999 | 796.345 | 840.345 | 94.8 | 192 | 143 | 49 | 4.147 | 22nd | 85 | 495 | 72 |
| 2002 | 815,000 | 840,000 | 97.0 | 186 | 132 | 54 | 4,381 | 28 | 97 | 429 | 78 |
| 2003 | 731,000 | 750,000 | 97.5 | 209 | 158 | 51 | 3,497 | 34 | 131 | 395 | 81 |
| 2004 | 731,000 | 750,000 | 97.5 | 208 | 163 | 45 | 3,514 | 34 | 109 | 395 | 80 |
| 2013 | 812,000 | 835,000 | 97.2 | 245 | 184 | 61 | 3,314 | 47 | 305 | 474 | 83 |
