It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Florencia.
The diocesan cathedra, the Catedral Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, is located in the episcopal see of San Vicente del Caguán in Caqueta Department.
On 9 December 1985, pope John Paul II established the Apostolic Vicariate of San Vicente-Puerto Leguízamo from the Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia (now a bishopric).
[1][2] On 30 May 2019 Pope Francis elevated this Apostolic Vicariate in the rank of diocese.
On 13 July 2019 the new created diocese changed province from Ibagué to Florencia (All members of the Consolata Missionaries)