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Archdiocese of Florencia
Archidioecesis Florentiae
Location
Country Colombia
Ecclesiastical provinceFlorencia
Statistics
Area15,441 km (5,962 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
260,000
222,800 (85.7%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
Established8 February 1951 (73 years ago)
CathedralOur Lady of Lourdes Cathedral, Florencia
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopOmar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo
Bishops emeritusFabián Marulanda López
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florencia (Latin: Florentiae) is an archdiocese located in the city of Florencia, Caquetá in Colombia.

On Saturday, April 27, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo, a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón - Rionegro, Colombia, who up until then had been serving as rector of the national major seminary "Christ the Priest" in La Ceja, Colombia, as the sixth ordinary and fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia.

He succeeded Bishop Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto, who had served from 2003 until his July 2011 appointment by Pope Benedict XVI as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos in Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia.

On July 13, 2019, Florencia was raised to a metropolitan archdiocese, so Giraldo became an archbishop then.

History

  • 8 February 1951: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia from the Apostolic Vicariate of Caquetá
  • 9 December 1985: Promoted as Diocese of Florencia
  • 13 July 2019: Elevated as Archdiocese of Florencia

Ordinaries

  • Vicars Apostolic of Florencia
  • Bishops of Florencia
    • José Luis Serna Alzate (9 December 1985 – 8 July 1989), appointed Bishop of Líbano-Honda
    • Fabián Marulanda López (22 December 1989 – 19 July 2002)
    • Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto (21 January 2003 – 15 July 2011), appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos by Pope Benedict XVI
    • Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (27 April 2013 – 13 July 2019); elevated to metropolitan archbishop
  • Archbishops of Florencia
    • Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (since 13 July 2019)

Suffragan dioceses

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Catholic dioceses in Colombia
Province of Barranquilla
Province of Bogotá
Province of Bucaramanga
Province of Cali
Province of Cartagena
Province of Florencia
Province of Ibagué
Province of Manizales
Province of Medellín
Province of Nueva Pamplona
Province of Popayán
Province of Santa Fe de Antioquia
Province of Tunja
Province of Villavicencio
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