Diocese of Buga, Colombia 🇨🇴

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Buga / Buguen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cali

Neighbouring Dioceses: Istmina–Tadó (←), Cartago (↑), Armenia (↗), Ibagué (→), Espinal (↘), Palmira (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1966.06.29: Established as Diocese of Buga / Buguen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cali and Diocese of Palmira and became suffragan of Cali)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.12.07 – ...):

Bishop Alexander Matiz Atencio (65)

Apostolic Administrator of Buenaventura (Colombia)

Monsignors (3)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Buga (Roman Rite)

Bishop Alexander Matiz Atencio (65)
(2024.12.07 – ...)

Bishop of Buga (Colombia)
Apostolic Administrator of Buenaventura (Colombia)

Todo lo puedo en aquel que me conforta

Born:	1960.08.04 (Pasto, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1990.11.25
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.02.22

Priest of Cali (Colombia) (1990.11.25 – 2024.12.07)

Bishop of Buga (Colombia) (2024.12.07 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Buenaventura (Colombia) (2026.04.04 – ...)

Bishop José Roberto Ospina Leongómez (79)
(2012.05.10 – 2024.12.07)

Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Colombia (Colombia)
Bishop emeritus of Buga (Colombia)

Servire regnare est

Born:	1947.03.20 (San Miguel de Sema, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1972.11.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.05.29

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1972.11.29 – 2004.04.19)

Titular Bishop of Gypsaria (2004.04.19 – 2012.05.10)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia) (2004.04.19 – 2012.05.10)

Bishop of Buga (Colombia) (2012.05.10 – 2024.12.07)

Apostolic Administrator of Cartago (Colombia) (2020.10.31 – 2021.10.18)

Apostolic Administrator of the Military Ordinariate of Colombia (Colombia) (2025.05.30 – ...)

Bishop Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo
(2001.01.19 – 2012.05.10)

Born:	1936.10.21 (Manizales, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1964.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.08.06
Died:	2026.01.03 (Cartago, Colombia † 89)

Priest of Cartago (Colombia) (1964.08.15 – 1984.06.27)

Titular Bishop of Alessano (1984.06.27 – 1987.07.07)

Auxiliary Bishop of Pereira (Colombia) (1984.06.27 – 1987.07.07)

Bishop of Málaga–Soatá (Colombia) (1987.07.07 – 2001.01.19)

Bishop of Buga (Colombia) (2001.01.19 – 2012.05.10)

Apostolic Administrator of Magangué (Colombia) (2012.07.30 – 2014.11.21)

Bishop Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, P.S.S.
(1985.01.17 – 2001.01.19)

Born:	1925.03.04 (Betania, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1950.06.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.03.25
Died:	2008.12.27 (Tuluá, Colombia † 83)

Titular Bishop of Casæ in Numidia (1981.01.29 – 1985.01.17)

Auxiliary Bishop of Medellín (Colombia) (1981.01.29 – 1985.01.17)

Bishop of Buga (Colombia) (1985.01.17 – 2001.01.19)

Bishop Julián Mendoza Guerrero
(1967.01.03 – 1984.08.04)

Born:	1914.04.11 (Cartago, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1939.10.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.03.05
Died:	1984.08.04 († 70)

General Secretary of Latin American Episcopal Council (1958 – 1967)

Bishop of Buga (Colombia) (1967.01.03 – 1984.08.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de San Pedro Apóstol, Buga, Valle del Cauca
Minor Basilica: Basílica de San Luis Gonzaga, Sevilla, Valle del Cauca
Minor Basilica: Basílica del Señor de los Milagros, Buga, Valle del Cauca
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Istmina–Tadó (←), Cartago (↑), Armenia (↗), Ibagué (→), Espinal (↘), Palmira (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 4,188 km²

Population: 439,018 Catholics (80.0% of 548,773 total)

Pastoral Centres: 74 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 116 priests (85 diocesan, 31 religious), 12 deacons, 138 religious (49 brothers, 89 sisters), 26 seminarians