Suffragan diocese San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela
Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
Sancti Ferdinandi Apuren(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese in Apure state, Venezuela, with its see at San Fernando de Apure. Established 7 June 1954 as a territorial prelature from territories of Calabozo and San Cristobal de Venezuela, and promoted to a diocese on 12 November 1974; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Calabozo. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen.
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- Established
- 1954
- Catholics
- 352,750
- Priests
- 27
- Territory
- 76,500 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Elieser Antonio Rivero Barrios
- Born
- 15 August 1975
- Birthplace
- Carora
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The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen stands in San Fernando de Apure, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
A suffragan Latin see in the Venezuelan ecclesiastical province of Calabozo, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi Apurensis) has its cathedral episcopal see in the city of San Fernando de Apure.