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Military Ordinariate of Colombia

Latin-rite military ordinariate serving the Catholic members of the Colombian armed forces and national police, seated in Bogota. It was established as a military vicariate on 13 October 1949 and elevated to a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986. Its seat is the Military Cathedral of Jesus Christ the Redeemer in Bogota; as of the latest Wikipedia data the see is vacant under Apostolic Administrator Jose Roberto Ospina Leongomez.

The see

Rank
Military ordinariate
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
13 October 1949
Annuario code
001000349

The see in figures

Catholics
5,050
Priests
2
Catholics per priest
2,525

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

The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.

The cathedral

Catedral Castrense Jesucristo Redentor, Bogota stands in Colombia, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia · GCatholic

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.