Diocese of Zipaquirá, Colombia

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Zipaquirá / Zipaquiren(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bogotá

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1951.09.01: Established as Diocese of Zipaquirá / Zipaquiren(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bogotá in Colombia and became suffragan of Bogotá in Colombia)
1962.03.16: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Facatativá
1971: Gained territory from Diocese of Facatativá

Present Prelates

Bishop (2004.06.30 – ...):

Bishop Héctor Cubillos Peña (75)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Zipaquirá (Roman Rite)

Bishop Héctor Cubillos Peña (75)
(2004.06.30 – ...)

Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia)

Born:	1949.11.17 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1974.11.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.03.23

Priest of Bogotá (Colombia) (1974.11.29 – 2002.02.15)

Titular Bishop of Fesseë (2002.02.15 – 2004.06.30)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bucaramanga (Colombia) (2002.02.15 – 2004.06.30)

Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (2004.06.30 – ...)

Archbishop Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal, C.I.M. (82) (later Cardinal)
(Apostolic Administrator 2004.02.06 – 2004.06.30)

Bishop Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal, C.I.M. (82) (later Cardinal)
(1992.11.09 – 2004.02.06)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Dorotea
Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Cartagena (Colombia)

Viva Jesus y María

Born:	1942.03.29 (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1967.06.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.12.12
Created Cardinal:	2022.08.27

Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (1992.11.09 – 2004.02.06)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Colombia (1993 – 1995)

General Secretary of Latin American Episcopal Council (1995 – 1999)

President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1999 – 2003)

Apostolic Administrator of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (2004.02.06 – 2004.06.30)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Cartagena (Colombia) (2004.02.06 – 2005.10.24)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cartagena (Colombia) (2005.10.24 – 2021.03.25)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Dorotea (2022.08.27 [2023.10.03] – ...)

Bishop Fabio Suescún Mutis (82)
(Apostolic Administrator 1991.09.27 – 1992.11.09)

Bishop Rubén Buitrago Trujillo, O.A.R.
(1974.07.08 – 1991.09.27)

Born:	1921.09.12 (Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1944.05.14
Consecrated Bishop:	1971.03.25
Died:	1991.09.27 († 70)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ flaviæ (1971.02.25 – 1974.07.08)

Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (Colombia) (1971.02.25 – 1974.07.08)

Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (1974.07.08 – 1991.09.27)

Bishop Buenaventura Jáuregui Prieto
(1957.12.08 – 1974.07.08)

Born:	1898.11.29 (Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1923.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1952.02.02
Died:	1983.03.07 († 84)

Titular Bishop of Arethusa (1951.12.05 – 1957.12.08)

Auxiliary Bishop of Medellín (Colombia) (1951.12.05 – 1957.12.08)

Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (1957.12.08 – 1974.07.08)

Bishop Tulio Botero Salazar, C.M. (later Archbishop)
(1952.05.01 – 1957.12.08)

Lumen semitis meis

Born:	1904.03.09 (Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1931.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1949.08.14
Died:	1981.03.01 († 76)

Titular Bishop of Marida (1949.05.07 – 1952.05.01)

Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena (Colombia) (1949.05.07 – 1952.05.01)

Bishop of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (1952.05.01 – 1957.12.08)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Medellín (Colombia) (1957.12.08 – 1979.06.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de la Santísima Trinidad, Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca
Minor Basilica: Basílica de San Jacinto, Guasca, Cundinamarca
Minor Basilica: Basílica de Santo Cristo de Ubaté, Ubaté, Cundinamarca

Facatativá (↙), Engativá (↙), La Dorada–Guaduas (↖), Chiquinquirá (↑), Tunja (↗), Garagoa (→), Bogotá (↓), Villavicencio (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 7,163 km²

Population: 834,918 Catholics (86.5% of 965,373 total)

Pastoral Centres: 75 parishes, 557 missions

Personnel: 171 priests (136 diocesan, 35 religious), 7 deacons, 403 religious (93 brothers, 310 sisters), 32 seminarians