Archdiocese of Florencia
Florentiae
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Florencia, Colombia
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese seated at Florencia in the Caqueta department of Colombia. Established on 8 February 1951 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia from the Apostolic Vicariate of Caqueta, it became a diocese on 9 December 1985 and was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 13 July 2019. Its seat is Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral in Florencia.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 February 1951
- Latin
- Florentiae
- Annuario code
- 001001418
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 222,800
- Population
- 260,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 85.7%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 4,126
- Extent
- 15,441 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 14
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
- Archbishop
- Omar de Jesus Mejia Giraldo
- Born
- 21 January 1966
- Birthplace
- El Santuario
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
Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral (Catedral Nuestra Senora de Lourdes), Florencia stands in Florencia, 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 Florencia
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Mocoa-SibundoyMocoa-Sibundoy
- Diocese of San Vicente del CaguánSan Vicente del Caguán
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Florencia in Caquetá, Colombia, this archdiocese bears the Latin name Florentiae. On Saturday, April 27, 2013, Pope Francis named Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo as its sixth ordinary and fourth bishop. A priest of the Diocese of Sonsón - Rionegro, Colombia, he had until that appointment served as rector of the national major seminary "Christ the Priest" in La Ceja, Colombia.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Curia Diocesana, Carrera 14 N. 13-35, Parque San Francisco, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia
- Telephone
- 320.3023.972; fax [608]435.86.55; fax 435.89.50
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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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.