Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
| Diocese of San Fernando de Apure | |
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| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Venezuela |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Calabozo |
| Diocesan bishop | Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón |
| founding | 1954 |
| surface | 43,646 km² |
| Parishes | 25 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Residents | 368.914 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Catholics | 295.131 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| proportion of | 80% |
| Diocesan priest | 17 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 3 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 14,757 |
| Permanent deacons | 1 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Friars | 3 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 25 (2017 / AP2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen |
The Diocese of San Fernando de Apure ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi apurensis ) is in Venezuela situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Fernando de Apure . It includes the state of Apure .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the territorial prelature of San Fernando de Apure with the Apostolic Constitution Providentissimo Redemptoris on June 7, 1954 from cession of the dioceses of Calabozo and San Cristóbal de Venezuela and was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Caracas as a suffragandiocese .
With the Apostolic Constitution Sancti Ferdinandi Apurensis she was raised to the diocese on November 12, 1974. With the elevation of the Diocese of Calabozo to the Metropolitan Archdiocese on June 17, 1995, it became part of the new ecclesiastical province.
On December 3, 2015, there were territorial shares for the establishment of the diocese Guasdualito .
Ordinaries
Prelates of San Fernando de Apure
- Angel Rodriguez Adolfo Polachini (November 30, 1966– March 25, 1971, then Bishop of Guanare )
- Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcategui (June 23, 1972– November 12, 1974)
Bishops of San Fernando de Apure
- Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcategui (November 12, 1974– June 23, 1992)
- Mariano José Parra Sandoval (July 12, 1994– July 10, 2001, then Bishop of Ciudad Guayana )
- Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas (November 7, 2001– July 15, 2016)
- Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón (since July 15, 2016)
See also
Web links
- Entry for Diocese of San Fernando de Apure on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on diocese of San Fernando de Apure on gcatholic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ erezione della diocesi di Guasdualito (Venezuela) e nomina del primo Vescovo. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , December 3, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 (Italian).