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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto

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Rite
  
Area
  
8,590 km²

Pope
  
Country
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2006)1,754,4101,142,504 (65.1%)

Established
  
7 March 1863 (154 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen

Archbishop
  
Antonio José López Castillo

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (Latin: Archidioecesis Barquisimetensis) is a Latin Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in northwestern Venezuela's Lara state.

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History

  • Established on 7 March 1863 as Diocese of Barquisimeto, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Mérida (now Metropolitan)
  • Suppressed on 14 August 1867, its territory reassigned to the new, short-lived Diocese of Coro y Barquisimeto (in fact a see transfer to Coro)
  • Restored on 22 October 1869 as Diocese of Barquisimeto from that (suppressed) Diocese of Coro y Barquisimeto
  • Lost territory on 1922.10.12 to establish the Diocese of Coro and on 1954.06.07 to establish the Diocese of Guanare, its own suffragan
  • Promoted on 30 April 1966 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Barquisimeto.
  • Lost territory again to establish two more suffragans : on 1966.10.07 the Diocese of San Felipe and on 1992.07.25 the Diocese of Carora.
  • Special churches

    Its cathedral episcopal see is the very modern Catedral Metropolitana de Barquisimeto in Barquisimeto. There is also a Minor Basilica : Basílica el Santo Cristo de la Gracia, also in Barquisimeto.

    Episcopal ordinaries

    (all Roman rite)

    Suffragan Bishops of Barquisimeto
  • Victor José Díez Navarrete (1869.10.22 – death 1893), previously Bishop of Coro y Barquisimeto (Venezuela) (1868.06.22 – 1869.10.22)
  • Gregorio Rodríguez y Obregón (1894.05.21 – death 1900)
  • Aguedo Felipe Alvarado Liscano (1910.08.15 – death 1926.09.26)
  • Enrique María Dubuc Moreno (1926.09.26 – 1947.11.17), previously Titular Bishop of Zaraï (1926.05.25 – 1926.09.26) & Coadjutor Bishop of Barquisimeto (1926.05.25 – 1926.09.26); emeritate as Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Numidia (1947.11.17 – death 1962.06.22)]]
  • Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel (1949.10.21 – 1966.04.30 see below)
  • Metropolitan Archbishops of Barquisimeto
  • Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel (see above 1966.04.30 – 1982.10.18), also President of Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (1972 – 1978)
  • Tulio Manuel Chirivella Varela (1982.10.18 – death 2007.12.22), also Second Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1991 – 1995), President of Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (1996 – 1999); previously Bishop of Margarita (Venezuela) (1974.04.05 – 1982.10.18)
  • Antonio José López Castillo (2007.12.22 – ...); previously Titular Bishop of Theuzi (1988.02.26 – 1992.08.01) & Auxiliary Bishop of Maracaibo (Venezuela) (1988.02.26 – 1992.08.01), Bishop of Barinas (Venezuela) (1992.08.01 – 2001.12.27), Metropolitan Archbishop of Calabozo (Venezuela) (2001.12.27 – 2007.12.22)
  • Province

    Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own archbishopric and the following Suffragan sees:

  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Acarigua–Araure
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Carora
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Guanare
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of San Felipe, Venezuela
  • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto Wikipedia


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