Archdiocese of Tunja

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunja () is an archdiocese located in the city of Tunja in Colombia.

History

• 29 July 1880: Established as Diocese of Tunja from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada
• 20 June 1964: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tunja

Special churches

• Minor Basilicas:
• BVM Rosary in Chiquinquirá

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Bishops of Tunja
• Severo Garcia † (18 Nov 1881 – 19 Apr 1886) Resigned
• Giuseppe Benigno Perilla † (17 Mar 1887 – 13 Mar 1903) Died
• Eduardo Maldonado Calvo † (24 Jun 1905 – 31 Mar 1932) Died
• Crisanto Luque Sánchez † (9 Sep 1932 – 14 Jul 1950) Appointed, Archbishop of Bogotá (Cardinal in 1953)
• Ángel María Ocampo Berrio † (6 Dec 1950 – 20 Jun 1964) Appointed, Archbishop of Tunja (see below)
• Archbishops of Tunja
• Ángel María Ocampo Berrio † (20 Jun 1964 – 20 Feb 1970) Resigned (also listed above)
• Augusto Trujillo Arango † (20 Feb 1970 – 2 Feb 1998) Resigned
• Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. † (2 Feb 1998 – 11 Feb 2020) Retired
• Gabriel Ángel Villa Vahos (11 Feb 2020 – present)

Auxiliary bishops

• Juan Nepomuceno Rueda Rueda † (1882-1892), appointed Bishop of Antioquía
• Crisanto Luque y Sánchez † (1931-1932), appointed Bishop here; future Cardinal
• Juan Eliseo Mojica Oliveros † (1967-1970), appointed Bishop of Jericó

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Norberto Forero y García †, appointed Apostolic Administrator of Nueva Pamplona in 1951
• Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz, appointed Bishop of Arauca in 2003
• Jaime Muñoz Pedroza, appointed Bishop of Arauca in 2010
• Froilán Tiberio Casas Ortíz, appointed Bishop of Neiva in 2012
• Jaime Cristóbal Abril González, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Nueva Pamplona in 2016
• Jaime Uriel Sanabria Arias, appointed Vicar Apostolic of San Andrés y Providencia in 2016

Suffragan dioceses

• Chiquinquirá
• Duitama–Sogamoso
• Garagoa
• Yopal

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Colombia

Sources

External links

• GCatholic.org
• Diocese website