The Episcopal Church in Colombia began as a chaplainship at the service of English-speaking foreigners residing in the country.

Therefore, pastoral jurisdiction passed successively from the Islas Malvinas, to Jamaica, to British Honduras and finally to Panama.

It was the missionary White Hocking Stirling, from the Malvinas Islands, who, having been consecrated in 1869 in London, assumed the responsibility of overseeing Colombia pastorally.

The financial and labor crisis of the years 1927-1929 decimated the missionary presence, because people were forced to migrate to other places in search of work.

The report he gave so motivated the national council of the church that it approved the reopening of work in Colombia in February 1945.

In 1946, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, passed the pastoral care of the churches in Colombia and Ecuador to Bishop Henry Sherrill, president of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who placed the two countries under the pastoral care of Bishop Reginald Heber Gooden (1946-1963).

In the early 1960s it became apparent to Bishop Gooden that the ministry had to be extended nationally if further growth of the church was to be achieved.

The first Colombian priest, Oscar Pineda Suárez, is ordained in Guayaquil, Ecuador, by Bishop Reed, in 1964.