Diocese of Engativá, Colombia

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Engativá / Engativen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bogotá

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

2003.08.06: Established as Diocese of Engativá / Engativen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá and became suffragan of Bogotá)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.06.29 – ...):

Bishop Germán Medina Acosta (66)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Colombia

Ordinaries

Bishops of Engativá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Germán Medina Acosta (66)
(2024.06.29 – ...)

Bishop of Engativá (Colombia)
General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Colombia

Born:	1958.02.25 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1983.06.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2021.08.14

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1983.06.11 – 2021.06.11)

Titular Bishop of Aradi (2021.06.11 – 2024.06.29)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia) (2021.06.11 – 2024.06.29)

Bishop of Engativá (Colombia) (2024.06.29 – ...)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Colombia (2024.07.02 – ...)

Bishop Francisco Antonio Nieto Súa (76)
(2015.06.26 – 2024.06.29)

Bishop emeritus of Engativá (Colombia)

Amor numquam eveniat

Born:	1948.09.17 (Panqueba, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1973.11.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.11.17

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1973.11.30 – 2008.10.22)

Titular Bishop of Teglata in Numidia (2008.10.22 – 2011.02.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia) (2008.10.22 – 2011.02.02)

Bishop of San José del Guaviare (Colombia) (2011.02.02 – 2015.06.26)

Bishop of Engativá (Colombia) (2015.06.26 – 2024.06.29)

Bishop Héctor Luis Gutiérrez Pabón
(2003.08.06 – 2015.06.26)

Prædica verbum oportuna et inoportuna

Born:	1937.05.17 (Caqueza, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1962.09.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.03.25
Died:	2024.12.02 (Bogotá, Colombia † 87)

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1962.09.22 – 1987.02.13)

Titular Bishop of Segia (1987.02.13 – 1998.02.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Cali (Colombia) (1987.02.13 – 1998.02.02)

Bishop of Chiquinquirá (Colombia) (1998.02.02 – 2003.08.06)

Bishop of Engativá (Colombia) (2003.08.06 – 2015.06.26)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de San Juan Bautista de la Estrada, Engativá, Distrito Capital de Bogotá

Churches by City (64)

Facatativá (←), Zipaquirá (↗), Bogotá (→), Fontibón (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 133 km²

Population: 1,700,000 Catholics (64.2% of 2,650,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 72 parishes, 51 missions

Personnel: 187 priests (114 diocesan, 73 religious), 41 deacons, 368 religious (174 brothers, 194 sisters), 9 seminarians