The Roman Catholic Diocese of Machiques ( la, Dioecesis Machiquesensis) is a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

located in the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo The Archdiocese of Maracaibo ( la, Archidioecesis Maracaibensis) is an archdiocese in Venezuela. Since November 2000, its Archbishop has been Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera. The city of Maracaibo, the second largest in Venezuela, has a population ...

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

History

On 26 May 1943

Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII ( it, Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his e ...

erected the diocese as an Apostolic Vicariate. The Vicariate was elevated to a full diocese by

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

on 9 April 2011.

Ordinaries

*Ángel Turrado Moreno,

OFMCap The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM ...

† (4 Sep 1944 – Jan 1954) *

Miguel Saturnino Aurrecoechea Palacios Miguel Saturnino Aurrecoechea Palacios (born 1 January, 1904 in Villaverde) was a Spanish clergyman and auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Machiques, and earlier for the titular see A titular see in various churches is an epis ...

,OFMCap † (19 Dec 1955 – 10 Mar 1986) *Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez, OFMCap † (10 Mar 1986 – 7 Oct 1995) *Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, OMI (24 Jan 1997 – 9 Apr 2011) *Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, OFMCap (9 Apr 2011 – 21 Dec 2018), appointed Bishop of Barinas *

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(19 Oct 2019 -

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GCatholic.org

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