Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán, Colombia

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: San Vicente del Caguán (español) / Santi Vincentii de Caguan (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Florencia

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1985.12.09: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of San Vicente–Puerto Leguízamo (español) / Sancti Vincentii–Portus Leguizamen(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia)
2013.02.21: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of San Vicente (español) / Sancti Vincentii (Latin) (lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Leguízamo–Solano)
2013.11.26: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of San Vicente del Caguán (español) / Santi Vincentii de Caguan (Latin)
2019.05.30: Promoted as Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán (español) / Santi Vincentii de Caguan (Latin) (became suffragan of Ibagué)
2019.07.13: Became suffragan of Florencia

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.07.05 – ...):

Bishop William Prieto Daza (50)

Ordinaries

Bishops of San Vicente del Caguán (Roman Rite)

Bishop William Prieto Daza (50)
(2024.07.05 – ...)

Bishop of San Vicente del Caguán (Colombia)

Misericordiam volo et non sacrificium

Born:	1974.12.26 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	2013.03.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2024.09.25

Priest of Villavicencio (Colombia) (2013.03.21 – 2024.07.05)

Bishop of San Vicente del Caguán (Colombia) (2024.07.05 – ...)

Archbishop Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (59)
(Apostolic Administrator 2021.05 – 2024.07.05)

Bishop Francisco Javier Múnera Correa, I.M.C. (68) (later Archbishop)
(2019.05.30 – 2021.03.25)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cartagena (Colombia)
President of Episcopal Conference of Colombia

Born:	1956.10.21 (Copacabana, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1982.08.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.02.11

Vicar Apostolic of San Vicente–Puerto Leguízamo (Colombia) (1998.11.28 – 2013.02.21)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ novæ in Numidia (1998.11.28 – 2019.05.30)

Vicar Apostolic of San Vicente del Caguán (Colombia) (2013.02.21 – 2019.05.30)

Bishop of San Vicente del Caguán (Colombia) (2019.05.30 – 2021.03.25)

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

President of Episcopal Conference of Colombia (2024.07.02 – ...)

Vicars Apostolic of San Vicente del Caguán (Roman Rite)

Bishop Francisco Javier Múnera Correa, I.M.C. (68) (later Archbishop)
(2013.02.21 – 2019.05.30)

(see above)

Vicars Apostolic of San Vicente–Puerto Leguízamo (Roman Rite)

Bishop Francisco Javier Múnera Correa, I.M.C. (68) (later Archbishop)
(1998.11.28 – 2013.02.21)

(see above)

Bishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. (later Archbishop)
(1986.10.17 – 1998.02.02)

Born:	1942.04.08 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1967.12.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1986.11.29
Died:	2022.08.02 (Chía, Colombia † 80)

Titular Bishop of Aquæ flaviæ (1986.10.17 – 1998.02.02)

Vicar Apostolic of San Vicente–Puerto Leguízamo (Colombia) (1986.10.17 – 1998.02.02)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tunja (Colombia) (1998.02.02 – 2020.02.11)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Colombia (2002 – 2005)

President of Episcopal Conference of Colombia (2005.07.05 – 2008.07.03)

Apostolic Administrator of Duitama–Sogamoso (Colombia) (2012.10.15 – 2015.04.18)

President of Episcopal Conference of Colombia (2014.07.09 – 2017.07.05)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá

Florencia (←), Neiva (↖), Granada (↗), San José del Guaviare (→), Puerto Leguízamo–Solano (↓)

Statistics (2019.12.31)

Area: 37,000 km²

Population: 99,000 Catholics (81.8% of 121,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 14 parishes, 30 missions

Personnel: 23 priests (16 diocesan, 7 religious), 26 religious (11 brothers, 15 sisters), 1 seminarian