Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Ibagué, Diocese of

IBAGUÉ, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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IBAGUÉ, Diocese of. - Diocese and capital city of the department of Tolima, Colombia, South America.

It has an area of 30,000 sq. km., has 500,000 inhabitants of whom 499,500 are Catholics, has 56 parishes, served by 86 diocesan priests and 13 regulars, a seminary, 5 male religious communities and 22 female ones (1949).

The diocese was created by Pope Leo XIII on 20 June 1900. The first bishop was Msgr. Ismael Perdomo. The Cathedral is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. It is a suffragan of Bogotá.

The city of I., founded in 1550, was, in the year 1854, the capital of the Republic of Colombia.

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BIBL.: P. J. Mac Auley, s. v. in Cath. Enc., VII, p. 613; Enc. Eur. Am., XXVIII, pp. 799-800.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 1532.

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Josi, Enrico. “Ibagué, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1532. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/ibague-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Ibagué, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1532. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ibague-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Ibagué, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {1532},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
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