Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:Colombia

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0100~

Italica - Spain

0200-0300

Sevilla (separated from Italica?) - Spain

0300-0400

Sevilla (Metr.) - Spain

1511

Santo Domingo (erected from Spain: Sevilla) - Puerto Rico

1513

Santa María la Antigua del Darién / Darién (established from Santo Domingo ?) - (New Granada) Panama

1520?

Panamá / Castilla del Oro (new name, See moved from Santa María la Antigua del Darién) - (New Granada) Panama

1925

Panamá (AD, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Cartagena) - Panama

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1534

Cartagena (detached from Panama) - (New Granada) Colombia

1534

Santa Marta (detached from Santo Domingo ??) - (New Granada) Colombia

1546

Popayán (detached from Panama) - (New Granada) Colombia

1562

Santa Marta (suppressed as the new diocese Santafé en Nueva Grenada was set up) - (New Granada) Colombia

1562

Santafé en Nueva Grenada (detached from Santa Marta) - (New Granada) Colombia

1564

Santafé en Nueva Grenada (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Lima ??) - (New Granada) Colombia

1577

Santa Marta (reestablished, detached from Santafé en Nueva Grenada) - (New Grenada) Colombia

1804

Antioquia (detached from Popayan, from Cartagena, and from Santafe en Nueva Granada) - (New Granada) Colombia

1835

Nueva Pamplona (detached from Santafé en Nueva Grenada) - (Republic of New Granada) Colombia

1859

Pasto (detached from Popayán) - (United States of New Granada) Colombia

1868

Antioquia (suppressed, territory incorporated in Medellín) - Colombia

1868

Medellín (detached from Santafé en Nueva Grenada and given the territory of Antioquia) - Colombia

1874

Antioquia (reestablished, detached from Medellín) - Colombia

1880

Tunja (detached from Santafé en Nueva Grenada) - Colombia

1893

Casanare (AV, detached from Tunja) - Colombia

1894

Tolima (detached from Bogotá, and from Popayan) - Colombia

1895

Socorro (detached from Nueva Pamplona) - Colombia

1898

Bogotá (Metr., new name, previously Santafé en Nueva Grenada Metr.) - Colombia

1900

Cartagena (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Santafé en Nueva Grenada) - Colombia

1900

Garzón (detached from Tolima) - Colombia

1900

Ibagué (detached from Tolima) - Colombia

1900

Manizales (detached from Medellín)- Colombia

1900

Popayán (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Santafé en Nueva Grenada) - Colombia

1900

Tolima (suppressed; territory to Garzón, and to Popayán) - Colombia

1902

Medellín (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bogotá) - Colombia

1903

Intendencias Orientales (AP, detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

1904

Caquetá (AP, detached from Pasto) - Colombia

1905

Guajira (AV, detached from Santa Marta) - Colombia

1908

Chocó (AP, detached from Antioquia) - Colombia

1908

Los Llanos de San Martín (AV, new name, previously Intendencias Orient. AP) - Colombia

1910

Cali (detached from Popayán) - Colombia

1912

San Andrés y Providencia (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Cartagena) - Colombia

1915

Arauca (AP, detached from Casanare) - Colombia

1915

Jericó (detached from Medellín) - Colombia

1917

Antioquia-Jericó (united) - Colombia

1917

Santa Rosa de Osos (detached from Antioquia) - Colombia

1918

Uraba (AP, detached from Antioquia) - Colombia

1921

Tierradentro (AP, detached from Popayán) - Colombia

1924

Sinú (AP, detached from Cartagena) - Colombia

1927

Tumaco (AP, detached from Pasto, and from Cali) - Colombia

1928

Rio Magdalena (AP, detached from Nueva Pamplona, and from Socorro y San Gil, Santa Marta) - Colombia

1928

Socorro y San Gil (new name, previously Socorro) - Colombia

1930

Caquetá (AV) - Colombia

1931

Sinú / San Jorge (AP, new name, alternative name San Jorge introduced) - Colombia

1932

Barranquilla (detached from Cartagena) - Colombia

1941

Antioquia (new name, previously Antioquía-Jericó, and new territory added from Uraba AP) - Colombia

1941

Jericó (detached from Antioquía, and from Uraba AP) - Colombia

1941

Uraba (AP, suppressed, incorporated in Antioquia, and partly in Jericó) - Colombia

1945

Labateca (AP, detached from Nueva Pamplona, and from Arauca) - Colombia

1946

San Andrés y Providencia (AP) - Colombia

1949

Colombia (Mil.Ord.) - Colombia

1949

Mitú (AP, detached from Los Llanos de San Martín AV) - Colombia

1949

Villavicencio (AV, new name, previously Los Llanos de San Martín AV) - Colombia

1950

Barrancabermeja (AV, and new name, previously Río Magdalena) - Colombia

1950

San Jorge (AV, and new name, previously Sinú / San Jorge) - Colombia

1951

Bertrania en el Catatumbo (Prel., detached from Nueva Pamplona) - Colombia

1951

Florencia (AV, detached from Caquetá) - Colombia

1951

Leticia (AP, detached from Caquetá) - Colombia

1951

Sibundoy (AV, new name, previously Caquetá AV) - Colombia

1951

Zipaquirá (detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

1952

Armenia (detached from Manizales, and from Chocó) - Colombia

1952

Bucaramanga (detached from Nueva Pamplona) - Colombia

1952

Buenaventura (AV, detached from Cali, and from Tumaco) - Colombia

1952

Istmina (AV, and new name, previously Chocó AP) - Colombia

1952

Palmira (detached from Popayán, and from Cali) - Colombia

1952

Pereira (detached from Manizales, and from Chocó) - Colombia

1952

Riohacha (AV, new name, previously Guajira AV) - Colombia

1952

Quibdó (AV, detached from Chocó, and from Antioquia) - Colombia

1952

Valledupar (AV, detached from Guajira) - Colombia

1954

Guapi (AP, detached from Tumaco) - Colombia

1954

Manizales (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Medellin) - Colombia

1954

Montería (detached from Cartagena, and from San Jorge) - Colombia

1955

Duitama (detached from Tunja) - Colombia

1956

Cúcuta (detached from Nueva Pamplona) - Colombia

1956

Girardot (detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

1956

Labateca (AP, suppressed, territory incorporated in Nueva Pamplona, in Cucuta, and in Arauca) - Colombia

1956

Nueva Pamplona (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bogotá) - Colombia

1956

Vichada (AP, detached from Villavicencio) - Colombia

1957

Espinal (detached from Ibagué) - Colombia

1957

Sonsón (detached from Medellín) - Colombia

1961

Tumaco (AV) - Colombia

1962

Barrancabermeja - Colombia

1962

Cartago (detached from Cali) - Colombia

1962

Facatativá (detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

1962

Ocaña (detached from Santa Marta) - Colombia

1964

Ariari (AP, detached from Villavicencio) - Colombia

1964

Cali (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Popayán) - Colombia

1964

Garzón-Neiva (new name, previously Garzón) - Colombia

1964

Ipiales (detached from Pasto) - Colombia

1964

Tunja (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bogotá) - Colombia

1964

Villavicencio - Colombia

1966

Buga (detached from Cali, and from Palmira) - Colombia

1968

Sonsón-Rionegro (new name, previously Sonsón) - Colombia

1969

Alto Sinú (Prel., and new name, previously Sinú / San Jorge, AP) - Colombia

1969

Barranquilla (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Cartagena) - Colombia

1969

Magangué (detached from Cartagena) - Colombia

1969

Sincelejo (detached from Cartagena) - Colombia

1969

Valledupar - Colombia

1970

Arauca (AV) - Colombia

1972

Garzón (new name, previously Garzón-Neiva) - Colombia

1972

Neiva (detached from Garzón) - Colombia

1974

Bucaramanga (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Nueva Pamplona) - Colombia

1974

Ibagué (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bogotá) - Colombia

1977

Chiquinquirá (detached from Tunja) - Colombia

1977

Garangoa (detached from Tunja) - Colombia

1983

Tibú (Prel., new name, previously Bertrania en el Catatumbo -Prel.) - Colombia

1984

Arauca - Colombia

1984

La Dorada-Guaduas (detached from Manizales, from Facatativa, and from Barrancabermeja) - Colombia

1985

Florencia - Colombia

1985

San Vicente-Puerto Leguízamo (AV, detached from Florencia) - Colombia

1987

Ariari (AV) - Colombia

1987

Málaga-Soatá (detached from Bucaramanga) - Colombia

1988

Apartadó (detached from Santa Fé de Antioquia) - Colombia

1988

Caldas (detached from Medellín) - Colombia

1988

Girardota (detached from Medellín) - Colombia

1988

Riohacha - Colombia

1988

Santa Fe de Antioquia (Metr., and new name, previously Antioquia, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Medellín) - Colombia

1989

Líbano-Honda (detached from Ibague) - Colombia

1989

Mitú-Puerto Inírida (AV, new name, previously Mitú AP) - Colombia

1989

San José de Guaviare (AV, detached from Mitú) - Colombia

1990

Istmina-Tadò (D, and new name, previously Istmina AV) - Colombia

1990

Quibdó - Colombia

1996

Buenaventura - Colombia

1996

Inírida (AP, detached from Mitú-Puerto Inírida) - Colombia

1996

Mitú (new name, previously Mitú-Puerto Inírida) - Colombia

1998

Montelíbano (D, and new name, previously Alto-Sinú -prel.) - Colombia

1998

Tibú - Colombia

1999

Granada en Colombia (D, and new name, previously AV Ariari) - Colombia

1999

Mocoa-Sibundoy (D, and new name, previously AV Sibundoy) - Colombia

1999

San José de Guaviare - Colombia

1999

Trinidad (AV, new name, previously Casanare) - Colombia

1999

Tumaco - Colombia

1999

Yopal (detached from Casanare) - Colombia

2000

Puerto Carreño (AV, new name, previously Vichada) - Colombia

2000

Puerto Gaitán (AV, detached from Vichada and from Villavicencio) - Colombia

2000

Tierradentro (AV) - Colombia

2000

Vichada (suppressed, territory to Puerto Gaitán, and to Puerto Carreño) - Colombia

2001

Guapi (AV) - Colombia

2003

Engativá (detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

2003

Fontibón (detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

2003

Soacha (detached from Bogotá) - Colombia

2004

Villavicencio (Metr, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bogotá) - Colombia

2003

Vélez (detached from Socorro y San Gil) - Colombia

2013

San Vicente (AV, new name, previously San Vicente-Puerto Leguízamo) - Colombia

2013

Puerto Leguízamo-Solano (AV, detached from San Vicente-Puerto Leguízamo) - Colombia

2013

San Vicente de Caguán (AV, new name, previously San Vicente) - Colombia

2019

San Vicente de Caguán (D) - Colombia

2019

Florencia (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Ibagué) - Colombia