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Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas

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Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
35,200 km²

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Venezuela

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2006) 647,000 609,000 (94.1%)

Established
  
23 July 1965 (51 years ago)

Bishop
  
Ramón Antonio Linares Sandoval

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar, Barinas

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida in Venezuela

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas (Latin: Dioecesis Barinensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese, in the Ecclesiastical province of Mérida, in western Venezuela's land-lockes Barinas state.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian catedral de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, located in the eponymous state capital Barinas.

History

  • On 23 July 1965 Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Barinas on territories split off from the Diocese of Calabozo and from their Metropolitan, Mérida in Venezuela.
  • It lost territory on 3 December 2015 to establish (part of) the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guasdualito, in the same province.

    • Episcopal Ordinaries

    Suffragan Bishops of Barinas
  • Rafael Angel González Ramírez (1965.07.23 – 1992.08.01)
  • Antonio José López Castillo (1992.08.01 – 2001.12.27) ; previously Titular Bishop of Theuzi (1988.02.26 – 1992.08.01) & Auxiliary Bishop of Maracaibo (Venezuela) (1988.02.26 – 1992.08.01; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Calabozo (Venezuela) (2001.12.27 – 2007.12.22), Metropolitan Archbishop of Barquisimeto (Venezuela) (2007.12.22 – ...)
  • Ramón Antonio Linares Sandoval (2002.07.16 – retired 2013.08.30), previously Bishop of Puerto Cabello (Venezuela) (1994.07.05 – 2002.07.16); later Apostolic Administrator of Acarigua–Araure (Venezuela) (2013.12 – 2015.08.10)
  • José Luis Azuaje Ayala (2013.08.30 – ...), also Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (2012.01.12 – ...); previously titular Bishop of Italica (1999.03.18 – 2006.07.15) & Auxiliary Bishop of Barquisimeto (Venezuela) (1999.03.18 – 2006.07.15), Apostolic Administrator of El Vigía–San Carlos del Zulia (Venezuela) (2005 – 2006.07.15), promoted Bishop of El Vigía–San Carlos del Zulia (2006.07.15 – 2013.08.30)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas Wikipedia
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