Diocese of Jericó
The Diocese of Jericó is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Western Colombia. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Medellín.
History
- 29 January 1915: Established as Diocese of Jericó, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Medellin
- 5 February 1917: Suppressed, its territory and title being merged into the then Diocese of Antioquia-Jericó
- 3 July 1941: Restored as Diocese of Jericó, regaining its territory from the above Diocese of Antioquía–Jericó.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 262,951 Catholics on 3,000 km2 in 33 parishes and 35 missions with 76 priests, 2 deacons, 106 lay religious and 25 seminarians.Special churches
- Its cathedral is the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy, in the episcopal see of Jericó, in the Colombian department of Antioquia
- It further has a Minor Basilica : Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, at Jardín
Bishops
;Suffragan Bishops of Jericó- Apostolic Administrator Maximiliano Crespo Rivera, while Bishop of Antioquía ; next Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Metropolitan Archbishop of Popayán
- Antonio José Jaramillo Tobón, emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Cotrada
- Augusto Trujillo Arango †, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Tunja, died 2007; previously Titular Bishop of Nisyrus as Auxiliary Bishop of Manizales
- Juan Eliseo Mojica Oliveros, next Bishop of Garagoa ; previously Titular Bishop of Baliana as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Tunja
- Augusto Aristizábal Ospina died 2004; previously Titular Bishop of Ceramussa as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Cali
- José Roberto López Londoño ; previously Titular Bishop of Urbisaglia as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Medellin, Bishop of Armenia
- Noel Londoño Antonio Buitrago, C.SS.R., also Apostolic Commissioner of Sodalitium of Christian Life.
- José Luis Henao Cadavid, appointed Bishop of Líbano-Honda in 2015