Diocese of Ipiales
The Diocese of Ipiales is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Southern Colombia. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán.
History
- Established on 23 September 1964 as Diocese of Ipiales, on territory split off from the Diocese of Pasto
Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 560,288 Catholics on 11,089 km2 in 45 parishes and 2 missions with 95 priests, 2 deacons, 86 lay religious and 37 seminarians.Special churches
- Its cathedral is the Catedral de San Pedro Mártir, dedicated to the martyr Peter of Verona, in the episcopal see of Ipiales in Nariño Department, near the border with Ecuador
- It also has a Minor Basilica : Basílica Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Las Lajas, dedicated to Our Lady, in Ipiales, in the same department.
Episcopal Ordinaries
- Miguel Angel Arce Vivas, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán, died 1987
- Alfonso Arteaga Yepes, next Bishop of Espinal ; previously Titular Bishop of Auzegera as Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán
- Ramón Mantilla Duarte, Redemptorists, died 2009; previously Titular Bishop of Sala Consilina as Vicar Apostolic of Sibundoy, Bishop of Garzón
- Gustavo Martínez Frías, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona
- Arturo de Jesús Correa Toro
- José Saúl Grisales Grisales, no previous prelature.