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Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil

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Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
12,250 km²

Bishop
  
Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Colombia

Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 254,3818 246,749 (2004%)

Established
  
20 March 1895 (122 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Socorro in Socorro

Co-cathedral
  
Catedral de La Santa Cruz in San Gil

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucaramanga

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil (Latin: Succursensis et Sancti Aegidii) is a diocese located in the cities of Socorro and San Gil in the Ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga in Colombia.

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History

  • 20 March 1895: Established as Diocese of Socorro from the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona
  • 19 January 1928: Renamed as Diocese of Socorro y San Gil

    • Ordinaries

  • Bishops of Socorro (Roman rite)
  • Evaristo Blanco (1897.04.09 – 1909.03.27)
  • Francesco Cristoforo Toro (1910.10.18 – 1913.12.16)
  • Antonio Vincenzo Arenas (1914.05.28 – 1922.07.12)
  • Bishops of Socorro y San Gil (Roman rite)
  • Leonida Medina (1923.03.07 – 1947.07.19)
  • Angel Maria Ocampo Berrio, S.J. (1947.07.19 – 1950.12.06)
  • Aníbal Muñoz Duque (1951.04.08 – 1952.12.18)
  • Pedro José Rivera Mejía (1953.02.20 – 1975.10.25)
  • Ciro Alfonso Gómez Serrano (1975.10.25 – 1980.01.19)
  • Víctor Manuel López Forero (1980.12.06 – 1985.06.07)
  • Jorge Leonardo Gómez Serna, O.P. (1986.03.06 – 2001.11.03)
  • Ismael Rueda Sierra (2003.06.27 – 2009.02.13)
  • Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz (2010.02.02 - Present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil Wikipedia
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