Francisco Duque-Gómez

The Rt. Rev. Francisco Duque-Gómez is the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Colombia. He was born September 17, 1950 in Colombia’s “Coffee Zone” of Colombia. The youngest of 13 brothers, he studied Law and Social Sciences in Bogotá and then taught at various universities. He was ordained priest on December 8, 1987, and served as a worker priest in several parishes and missions in the Colombian capital. He was unanimously elected on February 2, 2001 as Bishop Coadjutor and consecrated on July 14 of the same year in the parish of San Albán.