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Suffragan diocese Palmira, Colombia

Diocese of Palmira

Palmiran(us)

Latin Church

Latin-rite diocese covering ten municipalities of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia, seated at Palmira and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cali. It was erected on 17 December 1952 from the Diocese of Cali and the Archdiocese of Popayan. Its seat is the Cathedral of Nuestra Senora del Rosario del Palmar in Palmira.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Catedral de Nuestra Senora del Rosario del Palmar, Palmira, in Palmira, Colombia.

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Established
1952
Catholics
600,000
Priests
88
Territory
3,000 km²

Parishes and churches

55 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Edgar de Jesus Garcia Gil
Born
13 October 1946
Birthplace
Roldanillo

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The cathedral

Catedral de Nuestra Senora del Rosario del Palmar, Palmira stands in Palmira, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Palmira, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Cali, is the seat of this diocese, known in Latin as Palmiranus.

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