Archdiocese of Popayán


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán is an archdiocese located in the city of Popayán in Colombia.
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History

  • 22 August 1546: Established as Diocese of Popayán from the Diocese of Panamá
  • 20 June 1900: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán

Ordinaries

Bishops of Popayán

  1. Juan Valle
  2. Agustín Gormaz Velasco, OSA
  3. Domingo de Ulloa, OP, appointed Bishop of Michoacán, México
  4. Juan de La Roca
  5. Juan Pedro González de Mendoza, OSA
  6. Ambrosio Vallejo Mejia, O. Carm., appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
  7. Feliciano de la Vega Padilla, appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
  8. Diego Montoya Mendoza, appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
  9. Vasco Jacinto de Contreras y Valverde, appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
  10. Melchor Liñán y Cisneros, appointed Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
  11. Cristóbal Bernardo de Quirós
  12. Pedro Díaz de Cienfuegos, appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
  13. Mateo Panduro y Villafaña, OCD, appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
  14. Juan Gómez de Neva y Frías, appointed Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
  15. Juan Francisco Gómez Calleja
  16. Manuel Antonio Gómez de Silva
  17. Diego Fermín de Vergara, OSA, appointed Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada
  18. Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria, appointed Archbishop of Guatemala
  19. Diego del Corro, appointed Archbishop of Lima, Peru
  20. Jerónimo de Obregón y Mena
  21. Angel Velarde y Bustamante
  22. Salvador Jiménez y Padilla
  23. Fernando Cuero y Caicedo, OFM
  24. Pedro Antonio Torres
  25. Carlos Bermúdez
  26. Juan Buenaventura Ortiz
  27. Manuel José Caicedo Martínez

Archbishops of Popayán

  1. Manuel José Caicedo Martínez, appointed Archbishop of Medellín
  2. Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, CM
  3. Maximiliano Crespo Rivera
  4. Juan Manuel González Arbeláez
  5. Diego María Gómez Tamayo
  6. Miguel Angel Arce Vivas
  7. Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, CM
  8. Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, PSS, appointed Archbishop of Medellín
  9. Iván Antonio Marín López
  10. Luis José Rueda Aparicio, appointed Archbishop of Bogotá
  11. Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P.

Other affiliated bishops

Auxiliary bishops

  • Antonio Burbano, O.E.S.A.
  • Mateo José González Rubio
  • José Elías Puyana, appointed Bishop of Pasto
  • Raúl Zambrano Camader, appointed Bishop of Facatativá
  • Alfonso Arteaga Yepes, appointed Bishop of Ipiales
  • Hernando Velásquez Lotero, appointed Bishop of Facatativá
  • Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S., appointed Bishop of Chiquinquirá

Another priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Heladio Posidio Perlaza Ramírez, appointed Bishop of Cali in 1911

Suffragan dioceses