Suffragan diocese San Vicente del Caguán, Colombia
Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán
Santi Vincentii de Caguan
Latin Church
The Diocese of San Vicente del Caguan is a Latin rite diocese in Caqueta department, Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Florencia. Its lineage began with the Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia (1951), renamed San Vicente-Puerto Leguizamo in 1985 and San Vicente del Caguan in 2013, and it was elevated to a diocese by Pope Francis on 30 May 2019. Its seat is the Catedral Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes in San Vicente del Caguan.
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- Established
- 1951
- Catholics
- 98,300
- Priests
- 20
- Territory
- 38,000 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- William Prieto Daza
- Born
- 26 December 1974
- Birthplace
- Bogotá
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The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes stands in San Vicente del Caguán, 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
Often shortened to the Diocese of San Vicente, this Latin Church diocese in Colombia (Latin: Diocesis Sancti Vincentii a Caguan) serves as a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Florencia. Its cathedra rests in the Catedral Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, in the episcopal see of San Vicente del Caguán in Caqueta Department.