Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Popayán

History

• 22 August 1546: Established as Diocese of Popayán from the Diocese of Panamá
• 20 June 1900: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán

  Ordinaries

Bishops of Popayán

1. Juan Valle
2. Agustín Gormaz Velasco, OSA
3. Domingo de Ulloa, OP, appointed Bishop of Michoacán, México
4. Juan de La Roca
5. Juan Pedro González de Mendoza, OSA
6. Ambrosio Vallejo Mejia, O. Carm., appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
7. Feliciano de la Vega Padilla, appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
8. Diego Montoya Mendoza, appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
9. Vasco Jacinto de Contreras y Valverde, appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
10. Melchor Liñán y Cisneros, appointed Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas, Bolivia
11. Cristóbal Bernardo de Quirós
12. Pedro Díaz de Cienfuegos, appointed Bishop of Trujillo, Peru
13. Mateo Panduro y Villafaña, OCD, appointed Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia
14. Juan Gómez de Neva y Frías, appointed Bishop of Quito, Ecuador
15. Juan Francisco Gómez Calleja
16. Manuel Antonio Gómez de Silva
17. Diego Fermín de Vergara, OSA, appointed Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada
18. Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria, appointed Archbishop of Guatemala
19. Diego del Corro, appointed Archbishop of Lima, Peru
20. Jerónimo de Obregón y Mena
21. Angel Velarde y Bustamante
22. Salvador Jiménez y Padilla
23. Fernando Cuero y Caicedo, OFM
24. Pedro Antonio Torres
25. Carlos Bermúdez
26. Juan Buenaventura Ortiz
27. Manuel José Caicedo Martínez

    Archbishops of Popayán

28. Manuel José Caicedo Martínez, appointed Archbishop of Medellín
29. Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, CM
30. Maximiliano Crespo Rivera
31. Juan Manuel González Arbeláez
32. Diego María Gómez Tamayo
33. Miguel Angel Arce Vivas
34. Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, CM
35. Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, PSS, appointed Archbishop of Medellín
36. Iván Antonio Marín López
37. Luis José Rueda Aparicio, appointed Archbishop of Bogotá

    Other affiliated bishops

Auxiliary bishops

• Antonio Burbano, O.E.S.A.
• Mateo José González Rubio
• José Elías Puyana, appointed Bishop of Pasto
• Raúl Zambrano Camader, appointed Bishop of Facatativá
• Alfonso Arteaga Yepes, appointed Bishop of Ipiales
• Hernando Velásquez Lotero, appointed Bishop of Facatativá
• Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S., appointed Bishop of Chiquinquirá

  Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Heladio Posidio Perlaza Ramírez, appointed Bishop of Cali in 1911

  Suffragan dioceses

• Ipiales
• Pasto
• Tumaco