Diocese of Socorro y San Gil
Succursen(sis) et Sancti Aegidii
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
The Diocese of Socorro y San Gil is a Latin Church diocese in the Department of Santander, Colombia, erected as the Diocese of Socorro in 1895 and renamed in 1928. Its cathedral is in San Gil with a co-cathedral in Socorro, and it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1895
- Latin
- Succursen(sis) et Sancti Aegidii
- Patron
- N-D du Secours
- Annuario code
- 001003079
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 228,900
- Population
- 2,543,818
- Catholic share
- 9.0%
- Priests
- 117
- Catholics per priest
- 1,956
- Extent
- 12,250 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Luis Augusto Campos Flórez
- Born
- 23 August 1958
- Birthplace
- Bogotá
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 la Santa Cruz stands in Socorro y San Gil, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Basílica Concatedral de Nuestra Señora del Socorro.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Bucaramanga
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bucaramanga.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BucaramangaBucaramanga
- Diocese of BarrancabermejaBarrancabermeja
- Diocese of Málaga–SoatáMálaga–Soatá
- Diocese of VélezVélez
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Two cities, Socorro and San Gil, together anchor this Colombian diocese (Latin: Succursensis et Sancti Aegidii), part of the ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga.
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].