Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure

Diocese of San Fernando de Apure Dioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi Apurensis
Location
Country	Venezuela
Ecclesiastical province	Calabozo
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 415,000 352,750 (85.0%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	7 June 1954 (69 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas

File:Monseñor Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas.jpg

Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas

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.

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)

Sources and External links

• GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy