Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto
Archdiocese of Barquisimeto Archidioecesis Barquisimetensis | |
|---|---|
 Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel | |
| Location | |
| Country |  Venezuela |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,590 km2 (3,320 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 1,754,410 1,142,504 (65.1%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 7 March 1863 (161 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | vacant |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto (
archdiocese in northwestern Venezuela's Lara state
.
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 12 October 1922 to establish the Diocese of Coro and on 7 June 1954 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 7 October 1966 the Diocese of San Felipe and on 25 July 1922 the Diocese of Carora.
Special churches
Its
Minor Basilica
: Basílica el Santo Cristo de la Gracia, also in Barquisimeto.
Bishops
(all Roman rite)
Episcopal ordinaries
- Suffragan Bishops of Barquisimeto
- Coro y Barquisimeto(Venezuela) (1868.06.22 – 1869.10.22)
- Gregorio Rodríguez y Obregón (21 May 1894 – death 1900)
- Aguedo Felipe Alvarado Liscano (15 August 1910 – death 26 September 1926)
- Coadjutor Bishop of Barquisimeto (25 May 1926 – 26 September 1926; emeritate as Titular Bishop of Maximiana in Numidia(17 November 1947– death 22 June 1962)
- Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel (21 October 1949 – 30 April 1966 see below)
- Metropolitan Archbishops of Barquisimeto
- Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel (see above 30 April 1966 – 18 October 1982), also President of Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (1972 – 1978)
- Tulio Manuel Chirivella Varela (18 October 1982 previously Bishop of Margarita (Venezuela) (5 April 1974 – 18 October 1982)
- (Venezuela) (27 December 2001– 22 December 2007)
Coadjutor bishop
- Enrique María Dubuc Moreno (1926)
Auxiliary bishops
- Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce (1967–1970), appointed Bishop of La Guaira
- Eduardo Herrera Riera (1970–1994), appointed Bishop of Carora
- José Luis Azuaje Ayala (1999–2006), appointed Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cumaná in 1997
Province
Its
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
See also
- Roman Catholicism in Venezuela
References
External links
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