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Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure

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Country
  
Venezuela

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Ecclesiastical province
  
Calabozo

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure

Area
  
76,500 km (29,500 sq mi)

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2004)415,000352,750 (85.0%)

Established
  
7 June 1954 (62 years ago)

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi Apurensis) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Calabozo in Venezuela.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is , located in the city of San Fernando de Apure.

History

  • It was established on 7 June 1954 as Territorial Prelature of San Fernando de Apure, on territories split off from the Dioceses of Calabozo and San Cristóbal de Venezuela
  • Promoted on 12 November 1974 as Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
  • It lost territory on 3 December 2015 to establish (part of) the Diocese of Guasdualito

    • Episcopal Ordinaries

    (all Roman rite)

    Territorial Prelates of San Fernando de Apure
  • Bishop-prelate Angel Adolfo Polachini Rodriguez (1966.11.30 – 1971.03.25), Titular Bishop of Rusticiana (1966.11.30 – 1971.03.25); later Bishop of Guanare (Venezuela) (1971.03.25 – retired 1994.04.16)
  • Bishop-prelate Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcátegui (1972.06.23 – 1974.11.12 see below), Titular Bishop of Aurusuliana (1972.06.23 – 1974.11.12)
    • Suffragan Bishops of San Fernando de Apure
  • Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcátegui (see above 1974.11.12 – 1992.06.23); later Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas (Venezuela) (1992.06.23 – 2005.12.12) & Titular Bishop of Arindela (1992.06.23 – ...)
  • Apostolic Administrator (1992.05.27 – 1994.07.12) Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, S.D.B. while Titular Bishop of Utimmira (1989.10.23 – 1995.05.27) & Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Ayacucho (Venezuela) (1989.10.23 – 1995.05.27); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela) (1995.05.27 – death 2003.07.06), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Domenica Mazzarello (2001.02.21 [2001.05.24] – 2003.07.06)
  • Mariano José Parra Sandoval (1994.07.12 – 2001.07.10); later Bishop of Ciudad Guayana (Venezuela) (2001.07.10 – ...)
  • Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas (2001.11.07 – ...); previously Titular Bishop of Tagaria (1998.05.09 – 2001.11.07) & Auxiliary Bishop of Calabozo (Venezuela) (1998.05.09 – 2001.11.07)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure Wikipedia
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