Diocese of Facatativá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Facatativá / Facatativen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bogotá

Neighbouring Dioceses: Girardot (↙), La Dorada–Guaduas (↖), Zipaquirá (↗), Engativá (→), Fontibón (↘), Soacha (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1962.03.16: Established as Diocese of Facatativá / Facatativen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá and Diocese of Zipaquirá and became suffragan of Bogotá)
1971: Lost territory to Diocese of Zipaquirá
1984.03.29: Lost territory to establish Diocese of La Dorada–Guaduas

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.04.21 – ...):

Bishop Pedro Manuel Salamanca Mantilla (65)

Monsignors (5)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Facatativá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Pedro Manuel Salamanca Mantilla (65)
(2022.04.21 – ...)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia)

Born:	1961.06.04 (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1986.11.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.12.12

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1986.11.30 – 2015.11.07)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ in Mauretania (2015.11.07 – 2022.04.21)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia) (2015.11.07 – 2022.04.21)

Apostolic Administrator of Facatativá (Colombia) (2021.06.05 – 2022.04.21)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia) (2022.04.21 – ...)

Bishop Pedro Manuel Salamanca Mantilla (65)
(Apostolic Administrator 2021.06.05 – 2022.04.21)

Bishop José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez (65) (later Archbishop)
(2015.02.23 – 2021.04.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Manizales (Colombia)

Quis ut Deus

Born:	1961.04.24 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1987.02.02
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.02.05

Priest of Manizales (Colombia) (1987.02.02 – 2004.11.22)

Bishop of Líbano–Honda (Colombia) (2004.11.22 – 2015.02.23)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia) (2015.02.23 – 2021.04.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Manizales (Colombia) (2021.04.25 – ...)

Bishop Luis Gabriel Romero Franco (91)
(Apostolic Administrator 2013.04.12 – 2015.02.23)

Bishop Luis Antonio Nova Rocha
(2010.11.13 – 2013.04.09)

Born:	1943.07.30 (Subachoque, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1968.08.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.03.09
Died:	2013.04.09 († 69)

Priest of Barranquilla (Colombia) (1968.08.22 – 2002.02.15)

Titular Bishop of Equizetum (2002.02.15 – 2010.11.13)

Auxiliary Bishop of Barranquilla (Colombia) (2002.02.15 – 2010.11.13)

Apostolic Administrator of Barranquilla (Colombia) (2010.08 – 2010.11.13)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia) (2010.11.13 – 2013.04.09)

Bishop Luis Gabriel Romero Franco (91)
(1986.04.15 – 2010.11.13)

Bishop emeritus of Facatativá (Colombia)

Born:	1935.03.01 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1958.11.01
Consecrated Bishop:	1977.06.29

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1958.11.01 – 1977.05.06)

Titular Bishop of Maturba (1977.05.06 – 1986.04.15)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia) (1977.05.06 – 1986.04.15)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia) (1986.04.15 – 2010.11.13)

Apostolic Administrator of Facatativá (Colombia) (2013.04.12 – 2015.02.23)

Bishop Hernando Velásquez Lotero
(1973.04.27 – 1985.05.18)

Born:	1926.07.06 (Medellín, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1950.10.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1972.02.13
Died:	2004.04.26 († 77)

Titular Bishop of Garba (1971.12.10 – 1973.04.27)

Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán (Colombia) (1971.12.10 – 1973.04.27)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia) (1973.04.27 – 1985.05.18)

Bishop Raul Zambrano Camader
(1962.04.26 – 1972.12.18)

Born:	1921.06.18 (Popayán, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1944.06.25
Consecrated Bishop:	1957.03.19
Died:	1972.12.18 (Bogotá, Colombia † 51)

Priest of Popayán (Colombia) (1944.06.25 – 1956.12.29)

Titular Bishop of Risinium (1956.12.29 – 1962.04.26)

Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán (Colombia) (1956.12.29 – 1962.04.26)

Bishop of Facatativá (Colombia) (1962.04.26 – 1972.12.18)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de la Santísima Virgen del Rosario, Facatativá, Cundinamarca
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (45)

Girardot (↙), La Dorada–Guaduas (↖), Zipaquirá (↗), Engativá (→), Fontibón (↘), Soacha (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 2,311 km²

Population: 602,000 Catholics (90.1% of 668,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 50 parishes, 11 missions

Personnel: 94 priests (60 diocesan, 34 religious), 5 deacons, 206 religious (59 brothers, 147 sisters), 20 seminarians