Diocese of Girardot
Girardoten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Girardot, Colombia
The Diocese of Girardot is a Latin Church diocese in central Cundinamarca Department, Colombia, erected in 1956 from the Archdiocese of Bogotá. Its cathedral is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bogotá.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 May 1956
- Latin
- Girardoten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001488
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 771,640
- Population
- 610,000
- Priests
- 164
- Catholics per priest
- 4,705
- Extent
- 4,800 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 161
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 Muñoz Pedroza
- Born
- 30 September 1958
- Birthplace
- Ciénaga
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 del Inmaculado Corazón de María stands in Girardot, 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 EngativáEngativá
- Diocese of FacatativáFacatativá
- Diocese of FontibónFontibón
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
This Colombian diocese (Latin: Girardotensis) has its seat in the city of Girardot and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bogotá.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle 19 N. 11-65, Girardot, Cundinamarca, Colombia
- Telephone
- [601]833.49.40; fax 830.95.10
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].