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 † Resigned
- *Giuseppe Benigno Perilla † Died
- *Eduardo Maldonado Calvo † Died
- *Crisanto Luque Sánchez † Appointed, Archbishop of Bogotá
- *Ángel María Ocampo Berrio † Appointed, Archbishop of Tunja
- Archbishops of Tunja
- *Ángel María Ocampo Berrio † Resigned
- *Augusto Trujillo Arango † Resigned
- *Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. † Retired
- *Gabriel Ángel Villa Vahos
Auxiliary bishops
- Juan Nepomuceno Rueda Rueda †, appointed Bishop of Antioquía
- Crisanto Luque y Sánchez †, appointed Bishop here; future Cardinal
- Juan Eliseo Mojica Oliveros †, 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