VILLAVICENCIO, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF. - It is located in the eastern regions of Colombia and comprises the least explored regions.

Missionary work in the Intendancy of S. Martino bore good fruit from 1903 to 1906, while the attempts made in 1907-1908 in the central Intendancy proved vain. On 23 June 1903 the apostolic prefecture of the eastern Intendancy was erected, and on 18 Jan. 1904 that of the Intendancy of S. Martino, detaching it from the archdiocese of Bogotá. On 28 Apr. 1908 the two prefectures were united and formed the apostolic vicariate of the Plains of S. Martino, entrusted to the Missionary Priests of the Company of Mary (Montfortians). On 9 June 1949, following the creation of the apostolic prefecture of Mitu (v.), it received the name of V.

It has an area of 190,710 sq km with 130,000 inhabitants, of whom 10,000 are pagans and the others Catholics. Missionaries 25, brothers 20, sisters 30, catechists 90. Quasi-parishes 11, stations 12; churches 11, chapels 19. Elementary schools 77, middle schools 3, vocational schools 1, orphanages 3.

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BIBL.: AAS, 42 (1950), pp. 133-34; MC, 1950, pp. 45-46; Arch. di Prop. Fide, Relazione annuale, pos. prot. n. 381/52. Saverio Paventi

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