List of ministers of foreign affairs of Colombia

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia
Laura Sarabia 2025.jpg
Incumbent
Laura Sarabia
since 29 January 2025
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style Madam Chancellor
Appointer President of Colombia
Inaugural holder Pedro Gual Escandón
as Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Formation7 October 1821
Succession Five
Salary COL$12,981,949 (monthly) [1]
Website www.cancilleria.gov.co

The following is a list of the people who have served as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Until 1886, the Ministries were named Secretariats, thus the head of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs was titled Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

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Secretaries and ministers of foreign affairs

Republic of Colombia (1819—1831)

No.Secretary of Foreign AffairsTook officeLeft officePresident
1 Pedro Gual Escandón 18211825 Simón Bolívar Palacios
2 José Rafael Revenga 18251826
3 José Manuel Restrepo Veléz 18261827
4 José Rafael Revenga 18271828
5 Estanislao Vergara y Santamaría 18281828
6 José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri 18281829
7 Estanislao Vergara y Santamaría 18291830
8 Domingo Caycedo y Sanz de Santamaría 18301830
9Vicente Borrero Costa18301831 Joaquín de Mosquera y Arboleda
10 Juan García del Río 18311831
11 José María del Castillo y Rada 18311831
12José Félix Restrepo Vélez18311831
13 José Francisco Pereira Martínez 18311832 Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña

Republic of New Granada (1832—1858)

No.Secretary of Foreign AffairsTook officeLeft officePresident
1 José Francisco Pereira Martínez 24 October 18313 April 1832 Francisco de Paula Santander y Omaña
2Alejandro Vélez Barrientos3 April 18323 April 1833
3José Rafael Mosquera Hurtado3 April 18331 August 1833
4Lino de Pombo O'Donnell1 August 183314 July 1835
5Francisco Soto Montes de Oca14 July 18354 September 1835
6Lino de Pombo O'Donnell4 September 183523 March 1836
7José Nazario Florentino González Vargas23 March 18363 May 1836
8Lino de Pombo O'Donnell3 May 183615 May 1838 José Ignacio de Márquez Barreto
9 Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez 15 May 183816 July 1839
10 Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda 16 July 183930 July 1839
11Alejandro Vélez Barrientos30 July 183928 January 1840
12Eusebio Borrero y Costa28 January 184018 May 1840
13Miguel Chiari Jiménez18 May 184027 May 1840
14Judas Tadeo Landínez27 May 184021 September 1840
15Lino de Pombo O'Donnell21 September 18409 October 1840
16Miguel Chiari Jiménez9 October 184013 May 1841
17 Mariano Ospina Rodríguez 13 May 18412 October 1843 Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez
18 Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán 2 October 18431 April 1845
19Juan María Gómez Pastor1 April 18459 October 1849 Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda
20Eusebio Borrero y Costa9 October 184928 May 1846
21 Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen 28 May 18467 July 1846
22Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo7 July 184613 October 1846
23 Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen 13 October 184620 July 1847
24 Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra 20 July 18477 February 1848
25 Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen 7 February 184819 June 1848
26José María Galaviz19 June 18485 December 1848
27 Justo Arosemena Quesada 5 December 184812 January 1849
28Cerbeleón Pinzón12 January 18491 April 1849
29 Manuel Murillo Toro 1 April 184916 May 1849 José Hilario López Valdéz
30José Acevedo Tejada16 May 18497 June 1849
31Victoriano de Diego Paredes y Paramato7 June 18491 November 1851
32José María Plata Soto1 November 18511 March 1853
33 Lorenzo María Lleras González 1 March 185326 November 1853 José María Obando del Campo
34José Caicedo Rojas26 November 18531 January 1854
35Cerbeleón Pinzón1 January 18541 April 1855
36Lino de Pombo O'Donnell1 April 18551 April 1857
37Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo1 April 18571 April 1861 Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
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Granadine Confederation (1858—1863)

No.Secretary of Foreign AffairsTook officeLeft officePresident
1Juan Antonio Pardo Pardo1 April 18571 April 1861 Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
2 Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen 1 April 186118 July 1861 Bartolomé Calvo Díaz
3 José María Rojas Garrido 18 July 186123 November 1861 Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda
4 Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra 23 November 18611 December 1862
5 José María Rojas Garrido 1 December 186210 February 1863
6 José Hilario López Valdéz 10 February 186314 May 1863
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United States of Colombia (1863—1886)

Term startTerm endMinister of Foreign Affairs
18821882 Jose Maria Quijnao Wallis

Republic of Colombia (1886—present)

Term startTerm endMinister of Foreign Affairs
18871888 Carlos Holguín Mallarino
18911891Antonio Roldán
18911895 Marco Fidel Suárez
18951896 José Maria Uricoechea
18971898 Jorge Holguín
18971898 Antonio Gómez Restrepo
18981899 Felipe Fermín Paul
18991900 Carlos Cuervo Márquez
19001901 Carlos Martínez Silva
19011902 Antonio José Uribe
19021903Felipe F. Paúl
19031904Luis Carlos Rico
19041904Francisco de Paula Mateus
19041904Enrique Cortés
19041906 Clímaco Calderón
19061908Gral. Alfredo Vázquez Cobo
19081908Gral. Marceliano Vargas
19081909 Francisco José Urrutia
19091909Guillermo Camacho
19091909 Carlos Cuervo Márquez
19091909 Marco Fidel Suárez
19091910Carlos Calderón
19101911 Enrique Olaya Herrera
19111912José María González Valencia
19121914 Francisco José Urrutia
19141917 Miguel Abadía Méndez
19171918Pedro Antonio Molina
19181918 Jorge Holguín
19181919Pedro Antonio Molina
19191920 Hernando Holguín y Caro
19201920Francisco Montaña
19201921Laureano García Ortiz
19211921 José Vicente Concha
19211921Carlos Adolfo Urueta
19211922 Enrique Olaya Herrera
19221922 Antonio José Uribe
19221922 Lucas Caballero Barrera
19221922Carlos Adolfo Urueta
19221925 Jorge Vélez
19251926 Eduardo Restrepo Sáenz
19261927 Marco Fidel Suárez
19271930Carlos Uribe
19301930Francisco Samper Madrid
19301930 Eduardo Santos Montejo
19301931Raimundo Rivas
19311935 Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
19351935 Enrique Olaya Herrera
19351935Francisco Samper Madrid
19351936Ernesto González Piedrahita
19361937 Jorge Soto del Corral
19371938 Gabriel Turbay
19381938 Antonio Rocha
19381940Francisco Samper Madrid
19401942 Luis López de Mesa
19421943 Gabriel Turbay
19431943Francisco José Chaux
19431943 Gabriel Turbay
19431944 Carlos Lozano y Lozano
19441945 Darío Echandía Olaya
19451945 Alberto Lleras Camargo
19451946 Fernando Londoño y Londoño
19461946Francisco Umaña Bernal
19461947 Carlos Lozano y Lozano
19471947 Luis López de Mesa
19471948 Domingo Esguerra Plata
19481948 Laureano Gómez Castro
19481949 Eduardo Zuleta Ángel
19491949 Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz
19491949 Eduardo Zuleta Ángel
19491950Eliseo Arango
19501950 Evaristo Sourdis Juliao
19501952Gonzalo Restrepo Jaramillo
19521953Juan Uribe Holguín
19531953 Guillermo León Valencia Muñoz
19531956 Evaristo Sourdis Juliao
19561957 José Manuel Rivas Sacconi
19571958 Carlos Sanz de Santamaría
19581961 Julio César Turbay Ayala
19611962José Joaquín Caicedo Castilla
19621963 José Antonio Montalvo
19631963 Fernando Londoño y Londoño
19631965 Fernando Gómez Martínez
19651966 Castor Jaramillo Arrubla
19661968 Germán Zea Hernández
19681970 Alfonso López Michelsen
19701974 Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa
19741978 Indalecio Liévano Aguirre
19781981 Diego Uribe Vargas
19811982 Carlos Lemos Simmonds
19821984 Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo
19841986 Augusto Ramírez Ocampo
19861990Cnel. Julio Londoño Paredes
19901991 Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa
19911994 Noemí Sanín Posada
19941996 Rodrigo Pardo García-Peña
19961998 María Emma Mejía Vélez
19981998 Camilo Reyes Rodríguez
19982002 Guillermo Fernández de Soto
20022006 Carolina Barco Isakson
20062007 María Consuelo Araújo Castro
20072008 Fernando Araújo Perdomo
20082010 Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde
20102018 María Ángela Holguín
20182019 Carlos Holmes Trujillo
20192021 Claudia Blum
20212022 Marta Lucía Ramírez
20222024 Álvaro Leyva
20242025 Luis Gilberto Murillo
2025incumbent Laura Sarabia

References

  1. ↑ "Decreto No. 0853 de 2012" (PDF) (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic. 25 April 2012. p. 3. Retrieved 3 December 2012.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. 1 2 Cadena, Pedro Ignacio (1878). Anales Diplomáticos de Colombia (in Spanish) (Official ed.). Bogotá: Imprenta de Manuel J. Barrera. pp. 33–34. OCLC   4654242 . Retrieved 10 December 2014.
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