Diocese of Garzón
Garzonen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Garzón, Colombia
Latin-rite diocese seated at Garzon in the Huila department of Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ibague. It was erected on 20 May 1900 from the Diocese of Tolima, was known as Garzon-Neiva from 1964, and resumed the name Garzon in 1972 when Neiva was split off. Its seat is the Cathedral of San Miguel Arcangel in Garzon.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 May 1900
- Latin
- Garzonen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001472
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 488,000
- Population
- 508,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 96.1%
- Priests
- 135
- Catholics per priest
- 3,615
- Extent
- 9,667 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 50
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
- Jaime Alberto Cabrera Arcos
- Born
- 20 September 1967
- Birthplace
- Sandoná
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
Catedral de San Miguel Arcangel, Garzon stands in Garzón, 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 Ibague
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ibague.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of IbaguéIbagué
- Diocese of EspinalEspinal
- Diocese of Líbano-HondaLíbano
- Diocese of NeivaNeiva
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Garzón, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Ibagué, is the seat of this diocese, carried in Latin as Garzonensis.
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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.