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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Pope
  
Country
  
Rite
  
Area
  
65,470 km²

Archbishop
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2004)540,000506,000 (93.7%)

Established
  
23 June 1903 (113 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen

Emeritus bishop
  
Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio (Latin: Villavicentiensis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Villavicencio in Colombia.

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History

June 23, 1903 (1903-06-23)
Established as Territorial Prelature of Intendencias Orientales from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá
March 16, 1908 (1908-03-16)
Demoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Los Llanos de San Martín
June 9, 1949 (1949-06-09)
Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Villavicencio
February 11, 1964 (1964-02-11)
Promoted as Diocese of Villavicencio
July 3, 2004 (2004-07-03)
Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Villavicencio

Ordinaries

  • Archbishops of Villavicencio (Roman rite)
  • Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega (2007.11.30 – present)
  • Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (2004.07.03 – 2007.05.31)
  • Bishops of Villavicencio (Roman rite)
  • Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (2002.07.16 – 2004.07.03)
  • Bishop Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M. (1994.05.03 – 2001.06.16)
  • Bishop Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M. (1969.04.26 – 1994.05.03)
  • Bishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1964.02.11 – 1969.04.26)
  • Vicars Apostolic of Villavicencio (Roman rite)
  • Bishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1949.06.09 – 1964.02.11)
  • Vicars Apostolic of Los Llanos de San Martín (Roman rite)
  • Bishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1939.06.27 – 1949.06.09)
  • Bishop Joseph-Marie-Désiré Guiot, S.M.M. (1908.04.04 – 1939.06.24)
  • Suffragan dioceses

  • Granada
  • San José del Guaviare
  • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio Wikipedia


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