It has an area of 29,094 sq km, with a population of 924,000 inhabitants, all Catholics, distributed in 118 parishes, served by 157 diocesan priests and 71 regulars; it has a seminary, 11 male religious communities and 50 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 436).
The diocese of T. (Tunquenensis), a suffragan of Bogotá, was created by Leo XIII on 19 July 1880. Before the arrival of the Spaniards, T. was known under the name of Hunza, as the residence of the zague, sovereign of the Muisca. The city was founded on 6 Aug. 1538 by the captain Gonzalo Suárez Rondón, but it received the title only in 1681.
The image of Our Lady of Refuge in the chapel of the Rosary of the church of St. Dominic is much venerated by the people, especially on its feast of the second Sunday of Nov. The chapel is an architectural jewel. Pius XI, by apostolic letter of 18 Aug. 1927, raised the church of Our Lady of the Rosary at Chiaquirra to the title and dignity of minor basilica (AAS, 20 [1928], pp. 18-19).
Bibliography2 worksJ. Moreno-Lacalle, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, p. 90; R. Vargas Ugarte, Hist. del culto de María en Ibero-America y de sus imágenes santuarias
BIBL.: J. Moreno-Lacalle, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, p. 90; R. Vargas Ugarte, Hist. del culto de María en Ibero-America y de sus imágenes santuarias mas celebrados, Buenos Aires [1947], pp. 385-88.
Carrière, Gastone. “Tunja, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, col. 613. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/tunja-diocesi-di.
MLA
Carrière, Gastone. “Tunja, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, col. 613. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tunja-diocesi-di.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_tunja_diocesi_di,
author = {Carrière, Gastone},
title = {Tunja, diocesi di},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {613},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tunja-diocesi-di}
}
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