Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia (Latin: Florentiae) is a diocese located in the city of Florencia Caquetá in the ecclesiastical province of Ibagué in Colombia.On Saturday April 27 2013 Pope Francis appointed the Very Reverend Father Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón – Rionegro Colombia who up until then had been serving as rector of the national major seminary Christ the Priest in La Ceja Colombia as the sixth ordinary and fourth Bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Florencia.He succeeds Bishop Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto who had served from 2003 until his July 2011 appointment by Pope Benedict XVI as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos in Santa Rosa de Osos Colombia.Bishop-elect Mejia Giraldo was born in El Santuario Colombia located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sonsón – Rionegro on January 21 1966.
