Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasto

The Diocese of Pasto (Latin: Dioecesis Pastopolitanus, Spanish: diócesis de Pasto ) is a diocese located in Colombia of the Roman Catholic church located in San Juan de Pasto, capital of Nariño in southwestern Colombia.

History

The Diocese of Buga was April 10, 1859 by Pope Pius IX. built from the former diocese of Popayán out. In 1927, the founder of cessions of territory of the Diocese of Pasto and the then Diocese of Cali, the then Tumaco Prefecture. 1964, the diocese was founded Ipiales from a new field assignment.

It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Popayán.

Ordinaries

• Emmanuele Canuto Restrepo (1870 - ...)
• Ignacio Leon Velasco SJ (1883-1889), then archbishop of Santafe de Nueva Granada
• Joaquín Pardo y Vergara (1891-1892), then Bishop of Medellín
• Manuel José Cayzedo y Martínez ( Cuero ) ( 1892-1895 ), then Bishop of Popayán
• Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz OAR (1895-1906)
• Adolfo Perea (1907-1911)
• Leonida Medina (1912-1916), then Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá
• Antonio Maria Pueyo de Val CMF (1917-1929)
• Ippolito Agudelo (1930-1933)
• Diego Gómez Maria Tamayo (1934-1944), then Archbishop of Popayán
• Emilio González Botero (1947-1961)
• Jorge Alberto Giraldo Restrepo CIM (1961-1976)
• Arturo Salazar Mejia OAR (1977-1995)
• Julio Enrique Bolaños Prado (since 1995)