The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barrancabermeja (Latin: Barrancabermeiensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral del Sagrado Corazón, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, in the city of Barrancabermeja in Santander State, Colombia.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 430,000 Catholics (71.9% of 598,000 total) on 15,000 km², in 34 parishes and 8 missions, with 71 priests (57 diocesan, 14 religious), 1 deacon, 44 lay religious (15 brothers, 29 sisters) and 22 seminarians.
Established on 2 April 1928 as Territorial Prelature of Río Magdalena, named after the Magdalena River, on canonical territories split off from the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona and Diocese of Socorro y San Gil
Promoted on 18 April 1950 and renamed after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Barrancabermeja
Promoted on 27 October 1962 as Diocese of Barrancabermeja
(all Latin Rite)
Territorial Prelates of Río Magdalena
Father Carlo Ilario Currea, Jesuits (S.J.) (1929.01.08 – 1932)
Father Raffaello Toro, S.J. (1932.02.20 – 1947)
Bishop-elect Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. (1947 – 1950.04.18 'see below)
Apostolic Vicar of Barrancabermeja
Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. (see above 1950.04.18 – 1962.10.27 see below), Titular Bishop of Bela (1950.04.18 – 1962.10.27)
Suffragan Bishops of Barrancabermeja
Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. (see above 1962.10.27 – 1983.12.23)
Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, Eudists (C.I.M.) (1983.12.23 – 1993.03.25); previously Titular Bishop of Egara (1978.03.08 – 1983.12.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Cali (Colombia) (1978.03.08 – 1983.12.23); later Metropolitan Archbishop of above Cali (2002.08.17 – retired 2011.05.18), Apostolic Administrator of Buenaventura (Colombia) (2004.02.21 – 2004.04.29)
Jaime Prieto Amaya (1993.11.11 – 2009.12.02), later Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia) (2008.12.01 – death 2010.08.25), Apostolic Administrator of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia) (2009.09 – 2010.03.30)
Apostolic Administrator Ignacio José Gómez Aristizábal (2009.02 – 2009.12.02), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (Colombia) (1992.10.10 – 2007.01.12)
Camilo Fernando Castrellon Pizano, S.D.B. (2009.12.02 - ...), peviously Bishop of Tibú (Colombia) (2001.04.23 – 2009.12.02)
