Diocese of Socorro y San Gil
Succursen(sis) et Sancti Aegidii
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
The Diocese of Socorro y San Gil is a Latin Church diocese in the Department of Santander, Colombia, erected as the Diocese of Socorro in 1895 and renamed in 1928. Its cathedral is in San Gil with a co-cathedral in Socorro, and it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1895
- Latin
- Succursen(sis) et Sancti Aegidii
- Patron
- N-D du Secours
- Annuario code
- 001003079
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 228,900
- Population
- 2,543,818
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 9.0%
- Priests
- 117
- Catholics per priest
- 1,956
- Extent
- 12,250 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Luis Augusto Campos Flórez
- Born
- 23 August 1958
- Birthplace
- Bogotá
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 la Santa Cruz stands in Socorro y San Gil, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Basílica Concatedral de Nuestra Señora del Socorro.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Bucaramanga
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bucaramanga.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BucaramangaBucaramanga
- Diocese of BarrancabermejaBarrancabermeja
- Diocese of Málaga–SoatáMálaga–Soatá
- Diocese of VélezVélez
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Two cities, Socorro and San Gil, together anchor this Colombian diocese (Latin: Succursensis et Sancti Aegidii), part of the ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga.
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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.