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Diocese of Barrancabermeja

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barrancabermeja is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga.

Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 430,000 Catholics (71.9% of 598,000 total) on 15,000 km², in 34 parishes and 8 missions, with 71 priests (57 diocesan, 14 religious), 1 deacon, 44 lay religious (15 brothers, 29 sisters) and 22 seminarians. == History ==
History
• Established on 2 April 1928 as Territorial Prelature of Río Magdalena, named after the Magdalena River, on canonical territories split off from the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona and Diocese of Socorro y San Gil • Promoted on 18 April 1950 and renamed after its see as Apostolic Vicariate of Barrancabermeja • Promoted on 27 October 1962 as Diocese of Barrancabermeja == Bishops==
Bishops
(all Latin Rite) Ordinaries ;Territorial Prelates of Río Magdalena • Father Carlo Ilario Currea, Jesuits (S.J.) (1929.01.08 – 1932) • Father Raffaello Toro, S.J. (1932.02.20 – 1947) • Bishop-elect Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. (1947 – 1950.04.18 see below) ; Apostolic Vicar of Barrancabermeja • Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. (see above 1950.04.18 – 1962.10.27 see below), Titular Bishop of Bela (1950.04.18 – 1962.10.27) ;Suffragan Bishops of Barrancabermeja • Bernardo Arango Henao, S.J. (see above 1962.10.27 – 1983.12.23) • Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, Eudists (C.I.M.) (1983.12.23 – 1993.03.25); previously Titular Bishop of Egara (1978.03.08 – 1983.12.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of Cali (Colombia) (1978.03.08 – 1983.12.23); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Ibagué (1993.03.25 - 2002.08.17), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Cali (2002.08.17 – retired 2011.05.18), Apostolic Administrator of Buenaventura (Colombia) (2004.02.21 – 2004.04.29) • Jaime Prieto Amaya (1993.11.11 – 2009.12.02), later Bishop of Cúcuta (Colombia) (2008.12.01 – death 2010.08.25), Apostolic Administrator of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia) (2009.09 – 2010.03.30) • Apostolic Administrator Ignacio José Gómez Aristizábal (2009.02 – 2009.12.02), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (Colombia) (1992.10.10 – 2007.01.12) • Camilo Fernando Castrellon Pizano, S.D.B. (2009.12.02 – 2020.05.29), previously Bishop of Tibú (Colombia) (2001.04.23 – 2009.12.02) • Ovidio Giraldo Velásquez (2020.05.29 -) Other priests of this diocese who became bishopsJosé Figueroa Gómez, appointed Bishop of Granada en Colombia in 2002 • Orlando Olave Villanoba, appointed Bishop of Tumaco in 2017 == See also ==
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