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| Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia | |
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| Abbreviation | CEC |
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| Formation | 14 September 1908 |
| Type | Episcopal conference |
| Legal status | Civil nonprofit |
Region served | Colombia |
| Membership | Active and retired Catholic bishops of the Colombia |
Official language | Spanish |
President | Luis José Rueda Aparicio |
Main organ | Conference |
TheEpiscopal Conference of Colombia is an administrative institution and permanence of theCatholic Church, composed of all the bishops of the dioceses of Colombia in a college, in communion with theRoman Pontiff and under his authority to exercise set of certain pastoral functions of the episcopate on the faithful of their territory under the rule of law and statutes, in order to promote the life of theChurch, to strengthen its mission of evangelization and respond more effectively to the greater good that the Church should seek to men.
TheCatholic Church is organised into 13archdioceses, 52suffragan dioceses, 10apostolic vicariates and onemilitary ordinariate. The archdiocese and dioceses are:
The apostolic vicariates areGuapi,Inírida,Leticia,Mitú,Puerto Carreño,Puerto Gaitán,Puerto Leguízamo-Solano,San Andrés y Providencia,Tierradentro andTrinidad. By their nature, they are direct subject to theHoly See.
Finally, there is theMilitary Ordinariate of Colombia.
| No. | President | See | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernardo Herrera Restrepo | Bogotá | 1908–1928 |
| 2 | Ismael Perdomo Borrero | Bogotá | 1928–1950 |
| 3 | Crisanto Luque Sánchez | Bogotá | 1950–1959 |
| 4 | Luis Concha Córdoba | Bogotá | 1959–1964 |
| 5 | Aníbal Muñoz Duque | Nueva Pamplona Bogotá | 1964–1972 |
| 6 | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez | Garzón | 1972–1978 |
| 7 | Mario Revollo Bravo | Nueva Pamplona | 1978–1984 |
| 8 | Héctor Rueda Hernández | Bucaramanga | 1984–1987 |
| 9 | Alfonso López Trujillo | Medellín | 1987–1990 |
| 10 | Pedro Rubiano Sáenz | Cali Bogotá | 1990–1996 |
| 11 | Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo | Popayán Medellín | 1996–2002 |
| 12 | Pedro Rubiano Sáenz | Bogotá | 2002–2005 |
| 13 | Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga | Tunja | 2005–2008 |
| 14 | Rubén Salazar Gómez | Barranquilla Bogotá | 2008–2014 |
| 15 | Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga | Tunja | 2014–2017 |
| 16 | Oscar Urbina Ortega | Villavicencio | 2017–2021 |
| 17 | Luis José Rueda Aparicio | Bogotá | 2017–2021 |
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