Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio

Archdiocese of Villavicencio Archidioecesis Villavicentiensis
Location
Country	Colombia
Ecclesiastical province	Villavicencio
Statistics
Area	65,470 km^2 (25,280 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 540,000 506,000 (93.7%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	23 June 1903 (121 years ago)
Cathedral	Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop-designate	Misael Vacca Ramirez
Bishops emeritus	Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M. Oscar Urbina Ortega
Map
Website
http://arquidiocesisdevillavicencio.org.co/

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Villavicencio (Latin: Villavicentiensis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Villavicencio in Colombia.

History

June 23, 1903 (1903-06-23)

Established as Territorial Prelature of Intendencias Orientales from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá

March 16, 1908 (1908-03-16)

Demoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Los Llanos de San Martín

June 9, 1949 (1949-06-09)

Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Villavicencio

February 11, 1964 (1964-02-11)

Promoted as Diocese of Villavicencio

July 3, 2004 (2004-07-03)

Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Villavicencio

April 3, 2020 (2020-04-03)

15 priests serving in the Archdiocese of Villavicencio are suspended from public ministry due to sex abuse allegations.

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April 27, 2020 (2020-04-27)

Accused of sexual abuse, priest Oscar Mora, one of now 19 suspended priests from the Archdiocese of Villavicencio, is revealed to have been transferred to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas in the United States of America. He is soon removed from ministry after the Archdiocese of Villavicencio notifies the Diocese of Dallas about Mora's sex abuse allegations.

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Bishops

Ordinaries, in reverse chronological order

• Archbishops of Villavicencio (Roman rite), below
  • Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega (2007.11.30 – 2022.04.23)
  • Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (2004.07.03 – 2007.05.31), appointed Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
• Bishops of Villavicencio (Roman rite), below
  • Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (2002.07.16 – 2004.07.03)
  • Bishop Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M. (1994.05.03 – 2001.06.16)
  • Bishop Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M. (1969.04.26 – 1994.05.03)
  • Bishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1964.02.11 – 1969.04.26)
• Vicar Apostolic of Villavicencio (Roman rite), below
  • Bishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1949.06.09 – 1964.02.11)
• Vicars Apostolic of Los Llanos de San Martín (Roman rite), below
  • Bishop Frans Joseph Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1939.06.27 – 1949.06.09)
  • Bishop Joseph-Marie-Désiré Guiot, S.M.M. (1908.04.04 – 1939.06.24)

Coadjutor bishops

• Francisco José Bruls Canisius, S.M.M. (1939), as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic
• Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M. (1992-1994)

Auxiliary bishop

• Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, S.M.M. (1961-1969), appointed Bishop here

Suffragan dioceses

• Granada
• San José del Guaviare

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Colombia

Sources

1. Presse, AFP-Agence France. "Catholic Priests Suspended In Colombia Over Abuse Claim". www.barrons.com.
2. "Colombia's Catholic Church suspends 15 priests for sexual abuse". The Brussels Times. April 4, 2020.
3. "Dallas priest accused of abuse removed from the Ministry". The New York Times. April 27, 2020.

External links

• GCatholic.org
• Diocese website
• Event data as RDF ^{[dead link]}

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