Diocese of Cumaná

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Cumaná is a metropolitan archdiocese in northeastern Venezuela, founded as a diocese in 1922 and elevated to archdiocese in 1992, with suffragans Barcelona, Carúpano, El Tigre, and Margarita. Its archbishop since 2025 is Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín. Note: this see is an archdiocese, not a diocese.

Archbishop
Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín
Latin name
Cumanen(sis)
Erected
12 October 1922
Cathedral
Catedral Metropolitana del Corazón de Jesús
Co-cathedral
Basílica Concatedral de Santa Inés
Rank
Metropolitan See
Rite
Latin
Province
Cumaná (Archdiocese of Cumaná)
Catholics
616,271
Chancery
Arzobispado, Calle Bolívar 34, Cumaná 6101-A, Edo. Sucre, Venezuela
Telephone
Tel. [0293]431.41.31; fax 433.34.13

Contact as printed in the Annuario Pontificio.

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Sources: wikidata-p488 · Annuario code 001001251 · ontology v0.3.2 · updated 2026-06-08

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