The Colombian order of precedence is a symbolic hierarchy of officials used to direct protocol. It is regulated by Act 1444 of 4 May 2011.
Order of precedence
Below is the current cabinet headed by the President of the Republic, in its respective denomination, order and precedence.
#The
President of Colombia
The president of Colombia (President of the Republic) is the head of state and head of government of Colombia. The president heads the executive branch of the Government of Colombia, national government and is the commander-in-chief of the Mil ...
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Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he became the Pink tide, first left-wing president in the History of Colombia, recen ...
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#The
Vice President of Colombia
The vice president of Colombia (Vice president of the Republic) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the Government of Colombia, national government, after the president of Colombia, and ranks first in the Colombian presiden ...
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Francia Márquez
Francia Elena Márquez Mina (born 1 December 1981) is a Colombia, Colombian human-rights and environmental activist, feminist, lawyer and politician who is the 13th and current Vice President of Colombia since 2022. She was born in Yolombó (vill ...
César Gaviria
César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo ( ; born 31 March 1947) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National D ...
(7 August 1990 - 7 August 1994)
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Ernesto Samper
Ernesto Samper Pizano (born 3 August 1950) served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). He is a lawyer, economist, academic and pol ...
(7 August 1994 - 7 August 1998)
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Andrés Pastrana
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*Andres, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois, US
*Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
*Andres (name)
*Hurricane Andres
* "Andres" (song), a 1994 song by L7
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(7 August 1998 - 7 August 2002)
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Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010.
Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia Department, Antioquia. H ...
(7 August 2002 - 7 August 2010)
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Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
An economist by training and a journalist by trade, S ...
(7 August 2010 - 7 August 2018)
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Ivan Duque
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(7 August 2018 - 7 August 2022)
#Former vice presidents of Colombia and their widows/widowers (by seniority of assuming office):
## Humberto De la Calle (7 August 1994 - 10 September 1996)
## Gustavo Adolfo Bell (7 August 1998 - 7 August 2002)
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Francisco Santos Calderón
Francisco Santos Calderón (born 14 August 1961), also known as Pacho Santos, is a Colombian politician and journalist. Santos was elected as Álvaro Uribe's running mate and became Vice President in 2002. Santos was re-elected in 2006 for a se ...
(7 August 2002 - 7 August 2010)
## Angelino Garzón (7 August 2010 - 7 August 2014)
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Germán Vargas Lleras
Germán Vargas Lleras (; born 19 February 1962) is a Colombian politician who recently served as Vice President of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. A member of the Radical Change political party, he served four consecutive ...
(7 August 2014 - 21 March 2017)
## Oscar Naranjo (29 March 2017 - 7 August 2018)
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Marta Lucía Ramírez
Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco (born 4 July 1954) is a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as 12th Vice President of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. She also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. In 2018, Ramírez became the f ...
(7 August 2018 - 7 August 2022)
#The
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and foreign relations, relations, diplomacy, bilateralism, ...
( Laura Sarabia) (if there is a diplomat or foreign personalities)
#The
Apostolic Nunciature
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The head of the apostolic nunciature is called a ''nuncio ...
and
Diplomatic
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Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
Ministers
Minister may refer to:
* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric
** Minister (Catholic Church)
* Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department)
** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...
(in their respective order of origin)
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Minister of the Interior
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Armando Benedetti
Armando Alberto Benedetti Villaneda (born 29 August 1967) is a Colombian politician. He served as Senator of Colombia from 2006 to 2022 and Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2002 to 2006.
Career
Benedetti attended the Po ...
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Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Minister of Defense
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Jhenifer Mojica
Jhenifer María Sindei Mojica Flórez is a Colombian lawyer and human rights defender. On May 1, 2023, she assumed the position of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the administration of Gustavo Petro. Mojica had been working as ...
Minister of Labour Minister of labour (in British English) or labor (in American English) is typically a cabinet-level position with portfolio responsibility for setting national labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, traini ...
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Gloria Inés Ramírez
Gloria Inés Ramírez Rios (born 8 June 1956) is a Colombian trade unionist, professor, and politician who served as Minister of Labor from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Colombian Communist Party, Ramírez resigned from her position as Ministe ...
Minister of Commerce
A Commerce minister (sometimes business minister, industry minister, trade minister or international trade minister) is a position in many governments that is responsible for regulating external trade and promoting economic growth (commercial poli ...
Minister of Education
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Susana Muhamad
María Susana Muhamad González (born April 21, 1977) is a Colombian political scientist, environmentalist, politician, and member of Humane Colombia who served as Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development from 2022 to 2025.
Born ...
Catalina Velasco
Marta Catalina Velasco Campuzano (born June 18, 1971) is a Colombian economist from the University of the Andes, a specialist in Urban law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and in public policies and urban management, She has a Ma ...
Minister of Transport
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(William Camargo)
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Minister of Culture
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National Planning Department
The National Planning Department () is the executive administrative agency of Colombia in charge of defining, recommending and promoting public and economic policy.
Mission
The National Planning Department has the mission of defining and promoti ...
Vice admiral
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Australia
In the Royal Australian Navy, the rank of Vice ...
General
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In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...
Vice admiral
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Australia
In the Royal Australian Navy, the rank of Vice ...
General
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In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...
General
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In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...
Henry Sanabria)
# Governors of Departments - when outside their own department (Relative precedence among governors, all of whom are outside their own department, is determined by each department's date of creation or alphabetically by department)
## Governor of Amazonas
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Governor of Antioquia
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Andrés Julián Rendon
Andrés Julián Rendon Cardona (born 9 January 1978) is a Colombian politician and public administrator. From 2001 to 2006 he was a councilor of Rionegro, from 2008 to 2011 as Secretary of the Government of Rionegro. He would later serve as Rion ...
Governor of Boyacá
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general
Governor-general (plural governors-general), or governor general (plural governors general), is the title of an offic ...
Governor of Chocó
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Erasmo Zuleta
Erasmo Elías Zuleta Bechara (born 16 November 1989) is a Colombian politician and business administrator, from 2018 to 2022 he served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives representing the department of Córdoba, serving on the Third ...
Governor of Sucre
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Carlos Fernando Galán
Carlos Fernando Galán Pachón (born June 4, 1977) is a Colombian politician and journalist. The youngest son of the presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, assassinated in 1989, and brother of the senator Juan Manuel Galán, Galá ...
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#The Vice Presidents of the
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
##The First Vice President (Miguel Ángel Pinto)
##The Second Vice President ( Honorio Henríquez)
#The Vice Presidents of the Chamber
##The First Vice President (Olga Lucía Velásquez)
##The Second Vice President (Erika Tatiana Sánchez)
#The Senators (by alphabetical order)
#The Members and the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court
#The Members of the Constitutional Court