Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán, Colombia 🇨🇴

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Apostolic Vicariate

Name: Puerto Gaitán / Portus Gaitan(us) (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Neighbouring Dioceses: Villavicencio (←), Trinidad (↑), Puerto Carreño (↗), Inírida (→), San José del Guaviare (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1999.12.22: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán / Portus Gaitan(us) (Latin) (from Apostolic Prefecture of Vichada)

Present Prelates

Vicar Apostolic (2016.04.08 – ...):

Bishop Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez (61)

Titular Bishop of Afufenia

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (Roman Rite)

Bishop Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez (61)
(2016.04.08 – ...)

Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia)
Titular Bishop of Afufenia

Meumunicum desiderium est amare

Born:	1964.09.22 (Ubaté, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1990.05.14
Consecrated Bishop:	2016.05.22

Priest of Zipaquirá (Colombia) (1990.05.14 – 2016.04.08)

Titular Bishop of Afufenia (2016.04.08 – ...)

Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia) (2016.04.08 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Puerto Carreño (Colombia) (2020.04.25 – 2023.03.30)

Bishop Luis Horacio Gómez González
(2014.07.10 – 2016.04.08)

Fiat voluntas tua

Born:	1958.10.18 (Salaminas, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1991.11.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.08.21
Died:	2016.04.17 († 57)

Priest of Manizales (Colombia) (1991.11.30 – 2014.07.10)

Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia) (2014.07.10 – 2016.04.08)

Titular Bishop of Liberalia (2014.07.10 – 2016.04.17)

Msgr. Oswaldo Jaramillo Osorio
(2012 – 2014.07.10)

Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia) (2012 – 2014.07.10)

Bishop José Alberto Rozo Gutiérrez, S.M.M.
(1999.12.22 – 2012.03.02)

Born:	1937.02.22 (Cáqueza, Colombia)
Ordained Priest:	1962.08.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.03.19
Died:	2018.05.24 (Bogotá, Colombia † 81)

Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia) (1999.12.22 – 2012.03.02)

Titular Bishop of Arsennaria (1999.12.22 – 2018.05.24)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Maria Madre de la Iglesia, Puerto Gaitán, Meta

Villavicencio (←), Trinidad (↑), Puerto Carreño (↗), Inírida (→), San José del Guaviare (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 50,400 km²

Population: 205,230 Catholics (93.2% of 220,190 total)

Pastoral Centres: 13 parishes, 6 missions

Personnel: 19 priests (17 diocesan, 2 religious), 5 religious (2 brothers, 3 sisters), 2 seminarians