Diocese of Montería
Monterien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Montería, Colombia
Latin-rite diocese seated at Monteria, capital of the Cordoba department of Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cartagena. It was erected on 20 November 1954 from the Archdiocese of Cartagena and the Apostolic Vicariate of San Jorge. Its seat is the Cathedral of San Jeronimo in Monteria.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 November 1954
- Latin
- Monterien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002282
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,310,000
- Population
- 1,510,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 86.8%
- Priests
- 102
- Catholics per priest
- 12,843
- Extent
- 14,550 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 90
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
- Ruben Dario Jaramillo Montoya
- Born
- 15 August 1966
- Birthplace
- Santa Rosa de Cabal
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 Jeronimo, Monteria stands in Montería, 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 Cartagena
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cartagena.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CartagenaCartagena
- Diocese of MaganguéMagangué
- Diocese of MontelíbanoMontelíbano
- Diocese of SincelejoSincelejo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Montería, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Cartagena, serves as the seat of this diocese, known in Latin as Monteriesis.
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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.