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Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia

Diocese of Florencia
Dioecesis Florentiae
Escudo de la Diócesis de Florencia.svg
Location
Country  Colombia
Ecclesiastical province Ibagué
Statistics
Area 15,441 km2 (5,962 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
260,000
222,800 (85.7%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Established 8 February 1951 (66 years ago)
Cathedral Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral, Florencia
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo
Emeritus Bishops Fabián Marulanda López
Angelo Cuniberti, I.M.C.
Map
Mapa Diocesis de Florencia (Caqueta).svg

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia (Latin: Florentiae) is a diocese located in the city of Florencia, Caquetá in the ecclesiastical province of Ibagué in Colombia.

On Saturday, April 27, 2013, Pope Francis appointed the Very Reverend Father Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo, a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón - Rionegro, Colombia, who up until then had been serving as rector of the national major seminary "Christ the Priest" in La Ceja, Colombia, as the sixth ordinary and fourth Bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia.

He succeeds Bishop Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto, who had served from 2003 until his July 2011 appointment by Pope Benedict XVI as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos in Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia.

Bishop-elect Mejia Giraldo was born in El Santuario, Colombia, located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón - Rionegro, on January 21, 1966. He was ordained to the priesthood on November 16, 1991, having studied the requisite undergraduate philosophy and graduate theology studies at the national major seminary "Christ the Priest" in La Ceja, Colombia, the same one where he would later serve as rector.

He then earned a licentiate of sacred philosophy and religious studies (the S.P.L. degree) at the "Universidad Católica de Oriente" (Spanish: "Catholic University of the Orient") in Rionegro, Colombia, and then also a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in dogmatic theology (the S.T.L. degree) from the Pontifical Gregorian University (the Gregorian, or the "Greg") in Rome, Italy.


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