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Victor Manuel Pérez Rojas (17 October 1940 – 12 November 2019) was a Venezuelan
Catholic
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prelate.
Pérez Rojas was born in
Venezuela
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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as
titular bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of ''Tagaria'' and was auxiliary bishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabozo
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabozo ( la, Archidioecesis Calabocensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in Calabozo, Venezuela. It was a diocese until 1995.
History
The then-Diocese of Calabozo, embracing the section of Guárico and porti ...
, Venezuela from 1998 to 2001. He then served as bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure ( la, 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 Fe ...
, Venezuela, from 2001 to 2016.
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1940 births
2019 deaths
Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishops
Roman Catholic bishops of San Fernando de Apure
Roman Catholic bishops of Calabozo
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