Archdiocese of Popayán
| Archdiocese of Popayán | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Colombia |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Iván Antonio Marín López |
| surface | 17,308 km² |
| Parishes | 90 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,295,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 1,169,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 90.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 114 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 30 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8,118 |
| Permanent deacons | 22 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 40 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 295 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Asunción |
| Website | http://arquidiocesisdepopayan.org/ |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Ipiales Diocese of Mocoa-Sibundoy Diocese of Pasto Diocese of Tumaco |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán ( lat. : Archidioecesis Popayanensis , span. : Arquidiócesis de Popayán ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Popayán .
history
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The Archdiocese of Popayán was on August 22, 1546 by Pope Paul III. established with the Apostolic Constitution Super specula militantis Ecclesiae from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Panamá as the Diocese of Popayán . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Lima as a suffragan . On March 22, 1564, the Popayán diocese was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada as a suffragan. The diocese Popayán gave on May 28, 1803 parts of its territory to establish the diocese Maynas . Further territorial assignments took place on August 31, 1804 to found the Diocese of Antioquía , on April 10, 1859 to found the Diocese of Pasto and in 1894 to found the Diocese of Tolima .
On June 20, 1900 the diocese Popayán by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the archbishopric. The Archdiocese of Popayán gave up on June 7, 1910 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Cali . Further assignments were made on May 13, 1921 to found the Apostolic Prefecture Tierradentro and on December 17, 1952 to found the Diocese of Palmira .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Popayán
- Juan Valle, 1547-1563
- Agustín Coruña Velasco OSA , 1564-1590
- Domingo de Ulloa OP , 1591–1598, then Bishop of Michoacán
- Juan de La Roca, 1599-1605
- Juan González de Mendoza OSA, 1608-1618
- Ambrosio Vallejo Mejía OCarm , 1619–1631, then Bishop of Trujillo
- Feliciano de la Vega Padilla, 1631–1633, then Bishop of La Paz
- Diego Montoya Mendoza, 1633–1637, then Bishop of Trujillo
- Francisco de la Serna OSA, 1637–1645, then Bishop of La Paz
- Vasco Jacinto de Contreras y Valverde, 1658–1664, then Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga
- Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros , 1668–1672, then Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas
- Cristóbal Bernardo de Quiros , 1672–1684
- Pedro Díaz de Cienfuegos , 1686–1696, then Bishop of Trujillo
- Mateo Panduro y Villafaña OCD , 1696–1714, then Bishop of La Paz
- Juan Gómez de Neva y Frías , 1714–1725, then Bishop of Quito
- Juan Francisco Gómez Calleja , 1725-1728
- Manuel Antonio Gómez de Silva , 1728–1731
- Diego Fermín de Vergara OSA, 1732–1740, then Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada
- Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria , 1741–1752, then Archbishop of Guatemala
- Diego del Corro , 1752–1758, then Archbishop of Lima
- Jerónimo de Obregón y Mena , 1758-1785
- Angel Velarde Bustamante , 1788-1809
- Salvador Jiménez Padilla , 1816–1841
- Fernando Cuero y Caicedo OFM , 1842-1851
- Pedro Antonio Torres , 1855-1866
- Carlos Bermúdez , 1868-1887
- Juan Buenaventura Ortiz , 1888-1894
- Manuel José Cayzedo y Martínez , 1895–1900
Archbishops of Popayán
- Manuel José Cayzedo y Martínez, 1900–1905, then Archbishop of Medellín
- Emanuele Antonio Arboleda CM , 1906-1923
- Maximiliano Crespo Rivera, 1923-1940
- Juan Manoel González Arbeláez, 1942–1944
- Diego Maria Gómez Tamayo , 1944–1964
- Miguel Ángel Arce Vivas , 1965–1976
- Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo CM, 1976–1990
- Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo PSS , 1990–1997, then Archbishop of Medellín
- Iván Antonio Marín López , 1997–2018
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Luis José Rueda Aparicio , 2018–2020, then Archbishop of Bogotá
- Sedis vacancy since April 25, 2020
