Diocese of Santa Marta
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Marta is a diocese located in the city of Santa Marta in the ecclesiastical province of Barranquilla in Colombia.
History
- January 10, 1534: Established as Diocese of Santa Marta from the Diocese of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic
Bishops
Ordinaries
Alfonso de Tobes- Juan Fernando Angulo
- Martín de Calatayud
- Juan de los Barrios
- Juan Méndez de Villafranca
- Sebastián Ocando
- Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal
- Lucas García Miranda
- Antonio Corderiña Vega
- Juan de Espinoza y Orozco
- Francisco de la Cruz
- Francisco de la Trinidad Arrieta
- Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros
- Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita
- Diego de Baños y Sotomayor
- Gregorius Jacobus Pastrana
- Juan Víctores de Velasco
- Ludovicus de Gayoso
- Antonio Monroy y Meneses
- José Ignacio Mijares Solórzano y Tobar
- Juan Nieto Polo del Aguila
- José Javier de Arauz y Rojas
- Nicolás Gil Martínez y Malo
- Agustín Manuel Camacho y Rojas
- Francisco Javier Calvo
- Francisco Navarro
- Anselmo José de Fraga y Márquez
- José Alejandro de Egües y Villamar
- Diego Santamaría Cevallos
- Eugenio Sesé, C.R.S.A.
- Miguel Sánchez Cerrudo
- Manuel Redondo y Gómez
- Antonio Gómez Polanco
- José María Estévez
- José Luis Serrano
- Bernabé Rojas
- Vicente Arbeláez Gómez
- José Romero
- Rafael Celedón
- Francisco Simón y Ródenas
- Francisco Cristóbal Toro
- Joaquín Garcia Benitez
- Bernardo Botero Álvarez
- Norberto Forero y García
- Javier Naranjo Villegas
- Félix María Torres Parra
- Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi
- Luis Adriano Piedrahíta Sandoval
- José Mario Bacci Trespalacios, C.I.M.
Auxiliary bishops
- Pedro José Rivera Mejía, appointed Bishop of Socorro y San Gil
- Alfredo Rubio Diaz, appointed Bishop of Girardot
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Salvador Bermúdez y Becerra, appointed Bishop of Concepción in 1731
- Luis Gabriel Ramírez Díaz, appointed Bishop of El Banco in 2014
- Miguel Fernando González Mariño, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ibagué in 2016