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Archdiocese of Popayán

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Archdiocese of Popayán
Archidioecesis Popayanensis
Location
Country Colombia
Ecclesiastical province Popayán
Statistics
Area 17,087 km2 (6,597 sq mi)
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2004)
1,160,071
1,100,000 (94.8%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Established 22 August 1546 (480 years ago)
Cathedral Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Archbishop Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P.
Bishops emeritus Iván Antonio Marín López
Map
Website
arquidiocesisdepopayan.org

Archdiocese of Popayán — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán (Latin: Popayanensis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Popayán in Colombia.

History

  • 22 August 1546: Established as Diocese of Popayán from the Diocese of Panamá
  • 20 June 1900: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán

Ordinaries

Bishops of Popayán

  1. Juan Valle (27 August 1547 – 1563)[1]
  2. Agustín Gormaz Velasco, OSA (1 March 1564 – 1590)[1]
  3. Domingo de Ulloa, OP (9 December 1591 – 3 April 1598),[1] appointed Bishop of Michoacán, México
  4. Juan de La Roca (5 July 1599 – 7 September 1605)[1]
  5. Juan Pedro González de Mendoza, OSA (17 November 1608 – 14 February 1618)
  6. Ambrosio Vallejo Mejia, O. Carm. (2 December 1619 – 27 January 1631), appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
  7. Feliciano de la Vega Padilla (10 February 1631 – 5 September 1633), appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
  8. Diego Montoya Mendoza (5 September 1633 – 5 October 1637, appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
  9. Francisco de la Serna, OSA (25 August 1637 – 21 August 1645), appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
  10. Vasco Jacinto de Contreras y Valverde (25 February 1658 – 7 June 1666), appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga), Peru
  11. Melchor Liñán y Cisneros (16 January 1668 – 8 February 1672), appointed Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
  12. Cristóbal Bernardo de Quirós (16 May 1672 – 11 May 1684)
  13. Pedro Díaz de Cienfuegos (12 August 1686 – 20 February 1696), appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
  14. Mateo Panduro y Villafaña, OCD (18 June 1696 – 1 October 1714), appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
  15. Juan Gómez de Neva y Frías (19 November 1714 – 19 November 1725), appointed Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
  16. Juan Francisco Gómez Calleja (19 November 1725 – 9 September 1728)
  17. Manuel Antonio Gómez de Silva (20 September 1728 – 29 September 1731)
  18. Diego Fermín de Vergara, OSA (19 December 1732 – 12 December 1740), appointed Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada
  19. Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria (30 January 1741 – 24 January 1752), appointed Archbishop of Guatemala
  20. Diego del Corro (24 January 1752 – 13 March 1758), appointed Archbishop of Lima, Peru
  21. Jerónimo de Obregón y Mena (13 March 1758 – 14 July 1785)
  22. Angel Velarde y Bustamante (15 September 1788 – 6 July 1809)
  23. Salvador Jiménez y Padilla (8 March 1816 – 13 February 1841)
  24. Fernando Cuero y Caicedo, OFM (23 May 1842 – 7 August 1851)
  25. Pedro Antonio Torres (20 December 1853 – 18 December 1866)
  26. Carlos Bermúdez (13 March 1868 – 6 December 1887)
  27. Juan Buenaventura Ortiz (1 June 1888 – 15 August 1894)
  28. Manuel José Caicedo Martínez (2 December 1895 – 20 June 1900)

Archbishops of Popayán

  1. Manuel José Caicedo Martínez (20 June 1900 – 14 December 1905), appointed Archbishop of Medellín
  2. Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, CM (18 April 1907 – 31 March 1923)
  3. Maximiliano Crespo Rivera (15 November 1923 – 7 November 1940)
  4. Juan Manuel González Arbeláez (20 June 1942 – 1 February 1944)
  5. Diego María Gómez Tamayo (22 April 1944 – 12 September 1964)
  6. Miguel Angel Arce Vivas (7 April 1965 – 11 October 1976)
  7. Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, CM (11 October 1976 – 11 April 1990)
  8. Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, PSS (18 December 1990 – 13 February 1997), appointed Archbishop of Medellín
  9. Iván Antonio Marín López (19 April 1997 – 19 May 2018)
  10. Luis José Rueda Aparicio (19 May 2018 – 25 April 2020), appointed Archbishop of Bogotá
  11. Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P. (12 October 2020 – present)

Other affiliated bishops

Auxiliary bishops

Another priest of this diocese who became bishop

Suffragan dioceses

See also

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church.[2]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Archdiocese of Popayán — (POPAYANENSIS)

Popayán lies approximately between 1º 20' and 3º 2' north latitude, and 78º 4' and 80º 3' east longitude. Since the Decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Consistory (7 July, 1910), the boundaries of the archdiocese are, on the north, the Diocese of Cali, along the Rivers Sonso and Rio Claro; on the west, the same diocese, along the mountain chain of the Cordillera Occidental; on the south, the Diocese of Pasto, along the Rivers Patía and Juanambú, and on the east, the Diocese of Garzón, along the Cordillera Central. The archdiocese comprises the entire Department of del Cauca, and portions of the Departments of Nariño and El Valle. The diocese was established by Paul III 1 Sept., 1546; the see, however, was not erected until 8 Sept., 1547, when the first bishop named to the see, Don Juan del Valle, performed the ceremony by Apostolic delegation at Aranda del Duero, in the Diocese of Osma, Spain. The diocese became a suffragan of Lima, and so remained until 1573, in which year Bogota became a metropolitan see and received Popayán among its suffragans. The Sacred Congregation of the Consistory, however, by its Decree of 20 June, 1900, made Popayán an archdiocese, with Pasto, Garzón, and Cali for suffragans, its first archbishop being Don Manuel José de Cayzedo. Among the Bishops of Popayán, special mention should be made of Agustin de la Coruña (1509-89), an Augustinian, who was a student under St. Thomas of Villanova. He suffered vexations, and even banishment, for his activity in defence of the Indians. Bishop Carlos Bermúdez (1827-86) restored the seminary, and suffered banishment through his firm defence of the rights and privileges of the Church. The Bishop Juan Buenaventura Ortiz (1840-94) wrote a history of the Diocese of Popayán (Historia de la Diócesis) and a treatise on religion for colleges (Religión para los Colegios).

M. ANTONIO ARBOLIDA.

References

  1. Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Back to citation occurrence 1.2 Back to citation occurrence 1.3 HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol III. p. 278.
  2. Back to citation Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán, official website

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