Diocese of Engativá
Engativen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Engativá, Colombia
The Diocese of Engativá is a Latin Church diocese covering part of the city of Bogotá, Colombia, erected on 6 August 2003 from the Archdiocese of Bogotá, to which it is suffragan. Bishop Germán Medina Acosta was appointed to lead it in June 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 6 August 2003
- Latin
- Engativen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001365
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,100,000
- Population
- 1,332,728
- Catholic share
- 82.5%
- Priests
- 187
- Catholics per priest
- 5,882
- Extent
- 133 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8,271
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Germán Medina Acosta
- Born
- 25 February 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
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Catedral de San Juan Bautista), Engativá stands in Engativá, 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 Bogotá
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bogotá.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BogotáBogotá
- Diocese of FacatativáFacatativá
- Diocese of FontibónFontibón
- Diocese of GirardotGirardot
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].