Diocese of Garzón
Garzonen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Garzón, Colombia
Latin-rite diocese seated at Garzon in the Huila department of Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ibague. It was erected on 20 May 1900 from the Diocese of Tolima, was known as Garzon-Neiva from 1964, and resumed the name Garzon in 1972 when Neiva was split off. Its seat is the Cathedral of San Miguel Arcangel in Garzon.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 May 1900
- Latin
- Garzonen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001472
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 488,000
- Population
- 508,000
- Catholic share
- 96.1%
- Priests
- 135
- Catholics per priest
- 3,615
- Extent
- 9,667 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 50
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
- Jaime Alberto Cabrera Arcos
- Born
- 20 September 1967
- Birthplace
- Sandoná
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 Miguel Arcangel, Garzon stands in Garzón, 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 Ibague
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ibague.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of IbaguéIbagué
- Diocese of EspinalEspinal
- Diocese of Líbano-HondaLíbano
- Diocese of NeivaNeiva
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Garzón, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Ibagué, is the seat of this diocese, carried in Latin as Garzonensis.
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].