Diocese of Garagoa
The Diocese of Garagoa is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church Colombia. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Tunja|Archdiocese of Tunja].
Its cathedral is Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in the episcopal see of Garagoa, Boyacá Department.
History
- 26 April 1977: Established as Diocese of Garagoa, on territory split off from its metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Tunja.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 174,000 Catholics on 4,400 km² in 31 parishes and 2 missions with 48 priests, 39 lay religious and 12 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Garagoa- Juan Eliseo Mojica Oliveros, previously Titular Bishop of Baliana as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Tunja
- Guillermo Alvaro Ortiz Carrillo, previously Bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Jericó|Jericó]
- José Vicente Huertas Vargas
- Julio Hernando García Peláez ; previously Titular Bishop of Bida as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Cali , Bishop of Istmina–Tadó and Apostolic Administrator of Quibdó .
Coadjutor bishop
*Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Misael Vacca Ramirez, appointed Bishop of Yopal in 2001
- Luis [Felipe Sánchez Aponte], appointed Bishop of Chiquinquirá in 2004