Colombian Bishops' Conference

Signet of the Colombian Episcopate

The Colombian Bishops' Conference ( Spanish Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia, CEC ) is the union of the Roman Catholic bishops of all dioceses of Colombia . It was constituted in 1908 in Colombia's capital Bogotá .

In addition to the diocesan bishops , the bishops' conference includes the coadjutors , the diocesan administrators and the auxiliary bishops . Currently (as of August 2017) there are 120 members from the 13 Colombian dioceses . The organization is based with its secretariat in Bogotá in the district of Barrios Unidos . On July 5, 2017, the Colombian bishops elected the Archbishop of Villavicencio , Óscar Urbina Ortega , as their new chairman at their July session in Bogotá .

The first Colombian bishops' conference met in Bogotá on September 14, 1908. Bernardo Herrera Restrepo was its first chairman until 1928.

Chronology of the chairmen

No.	president	Seat	Duration
1	Bernardo Herrera Restrepo	Bogotá	1908-1928
2	Ismael Perdomo Borrero	Bogotá	1928-1950
3	Crisanto Luque Sánchez	Bogotá	1950-1959
4th	Luis Concha Cordoba	Bogotá	1959-1964
5	Aníbal Muñoz Duque	Nueva Pamplona , Bogotá	1964-1972
6th	José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez	Garzón , Manizales	1972-1988
7th	Mario Revollo Bravo	Nueva Pamplona	1978-1984
8th	Héctor Rueda Hernández	Bucaramanga	1984-1987
9	Alfonso López Trujillo	Medellin	1987-1990
10	Pedro Rubiano Sáenz	Cali , Bogotá	1990-1996
11	Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo	Popayán , Medellín	1996-2002
12	Pedro Rubiano Sáenz	Bogotá	2002-2005
13	Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga	Tunja	2005-2008
14th	Rubén Salazar Gomez	Barranquilla , Bogotá	2008-2014
15th	Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga	Tunja	2014-2017
16	Óscar Urbina Ortega	Villavicencio	2017-2020

↑ CEC: ¿Quiénes somos? . CEC website. Retrieved July 24, 2017 (Spanish)
^ New chairman of the Colombian Bishops' Conference kolumbienpart Partnerschaft.de, accessed on July 24, 2017
↑ Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega gcatholic.org, accessed on July 24, 2017 (English)