Suffragan diocese Garagoa, Colombia
Diocese of Garagoa
Garagoën(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese covering southeastern Boyaca department, Colombia, seated at Garagoa and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tunja. It was erected on 26 April 1977 from territory of the Archdiocese of Tunja. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira in Garagoa.
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- Established
- 1977
- Catholics
- 174,000
- Priests
- 53
- Territory
- 4,400 km²
Parishes and churches
33 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Sagrado Corazón de JesúsChivorView parish
- San Pedro de AlcántaraMacanalView parish
- San Roque y Santa AnaCampohermosoView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Julio Hernando Garcia Pelaez
- Born
- 26 July 1958
- Birthplace
- Anserma
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The cathedral
Catedral de Nuestra Senora del Rosario de Chiquinquira, Garagoa stands in Garagoa, 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.
History
A Latin Church diocese in Colombia, Garagoa (Latin: Garagoënsis) serves as a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Tunja. Its episcopal seat is Garagoa in Boyacá Department, where the cathedral, the Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá, is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.