Diocese of Armenia
Armenien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Armenia, Colombia
Latin Church diocese seated at Armenia in the Quindio Department of Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manizales. It was erected on December 17, 1952 by Pope Pius XII from the Diocese of Manizales. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Armenia; Bishop Carlos Arturo Quintero Gomez has served since December 4, 2018. The diocese counted about 473,000 Catholics in 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 December 1952
- Latin
- Armenien(sis)
- Patron
- Inmaculada Concepción
- Annuario code
- 001000731
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 473,000
- Population
- 562,117
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 84.1%
- Priests
- 105
- Catholics per priest
- 4,505
- Extent
- 1,845 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 256
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Carlos Arturo Quintero Gomez
- Born
- 3 August 1967
- Birthplace
- Armenia
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Armenia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Manizales
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Manizales.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ManizalesManizales
- Diocese of La Dorada–GuaduasLa Dorada–Guaduas
- Diocese of PereiraPereira
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Armenia (Latin: Armeniensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Colombia, its episcopal see being Armenia in Columbia's Quindío Department. It stands as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Manizales.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.