Diocese of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia 🇨🇴 (original) (raw)

Celebrations

History

• 1895.03.20: Established as Diocese of Socorro / Succursen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Nueva Pamplona and Diocese of Tunja and became suffragan of Santafé en Nueva Granada)
• 1928.01.19: Renamed as Diocese of Socorro y San Gil / Succursen(sis) et Sancti Ægidii (Latin)
• 1928.04.02: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Río Magdalena
• 1956.05.29: Became suffragan of Nueva Pamplona
• 1974.12.14: Became suffragan of Bucaramanga
• 2003.05.14: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Vélez

Present Prelates

Bishop (2019.12.12 – ...):	Bishop Luis Augusto Campos Flórez (66)

Ordinaries

Former Prelates

• Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Ciro Alfonso Gómez Serrano (1972.07.24 – 1975.10.25)
• Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Angel Maria Ocampo Berrio, S.J. (later Archbishop) (1942.06.23 – 1947.07.19)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 6,734 km²

Population: 228,900 Catholics (94.3% of 242,725 total)

Pastoral Centres: 53 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 117 priests (110 diocesan, 7 religious), 2 deacons, 82 religious (7 brothers, 75 sisters), 37 seminarians