Continent: South America
Rite: Roman (Latin)
Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese
Name: Medellín (español) / Medellen(sis) (Latin)
Suffragan Sees: Caldas, Girardota, Jericó, Sonsón–Rionegro
Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops
Patron Saint: Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (February 2)
Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅
Metropolitan Archbishop (2010.02.16 – ...): | Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (73) |
Auxiliary Bishop (2017.01.17 – ...): | Bishop José Mauricio Vélez García (60) Titular Bishop of Lapda |
Metropolitan Archbishops of Medellín (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||||
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (73) Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia)
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Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S.
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Archbishop Héctor Rueda Hernández
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Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo
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Archbishop Tulio Botero Salazar, C.M.
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Archbishop Joaquín Garcia Benitez, C.I.M. In te speravi non confudar in æternum
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Archbishop Tiberio Salazar Herrera
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Archbishop Manuel José Cayzedo y Cuero
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Archbishop Joaquín Pardo-Vergara
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Bishops of Medellín (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||||
Bishop Joaquín Pardo-Vergara (later Archbishop) (see above) | ||||||||||||
Bishop Bernardo Herrera Restrepo (later Archbishop) Impendam et superimpendar ipse pro animarus vestris
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Bishop José Ignacio Montoya Peláez Absit gloriari nisi in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi
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Bishop José Joaquín Isaza Ruiz
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Bishop Valerio Antonio Jiménez
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Bishops of Medellín–Antioquía (Roman Rite) | ||||||||||||
Bishop Valerio Antonio Jiménez (see above) |
Area: 718 km²
Population: 2,960,000 Catholics (78.0% of 3,796,137 total)
Pastoral Centres: 342 parishes, 49 missions
Personnel: 974 priests (671 diocesan, 303 religious), 58 deacons, 3,554 religious (547 brothers, 3,007 sisters), 143 seminarians
Last updated on 2024.10.13
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