The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calabozo ( la, Archidioecesis Calabocensis) is a

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archdiocese in

Calabozo Calabozo, officially Villa de Todos los Santos de Calabozo, is a city in Venezuela located in the Guárico state, capital of the Francisco de Miranda Municipality and former capital of the state. It has a population of 168,605, according to t ...

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. It was a

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until 1995.

History

The then-Diocese of Calabozo, embracing the section of Guárico and portions of the sections of Apure, Zamora, Portuguesa, Cojedes and Guzman Blanco, was created 7 March 1863 by

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as a

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of the

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( Santiago de Venezuela), and its first bishop was consecrated 30 October 1881.

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elevated the diocese to an archdiocese on 17 June 1995. As a metropolitan archdiocese, it has 2 suffragans: * San Fernando de Apure *

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Bishops

Ordinaries

*Salustiano Crespo † (4 Aug 1881 – 12 Jul 1888) *Felipe Neri Sendra (Sendrea) † (25 Sep 1891 – 9 May 1921) *Arturo Celestino Álvarez † (9 May 1921 – 8 Jan 1952) *Antonio Ignacio Camargo † (8 Jan 1952 – 2 Sep 1957) Appointed, Bishop of Trujillo *Domingo Roa Pérez † (3 Oct 1957 – 16 Jan 1961) Appointed, Bishop of

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* Miguel Antonio Salas Salas,

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† (16 Jan 1961 – 20 Aug 1979) Appointed, Archbishop of Mérida * Helímenas de Jesús Rojo Paredes, C.I.M. (24 Mar 1980 – 27 Dec 2001) * Antonio José López Castillo (27 Dec 2001 – 22 Dec 2007) Appointed, Archbishop of

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* Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez (10 Dec 2008 – present)

Coadjutor bishops

* Arturo Celestino Álvarez † (1919-1921) * Antonio Ignacio Camargo † (1949-1952)

Auxiliary bishops

* Antonio Ignacio Camargo † (1947-1949), appointed Coadjutor here *

Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas Victor Manuel Pérez Rojas (17 October 1940 – 12 November 2019) was a Venezuelan Catholic prelate. Pérez Rojas was born in Venezuela and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as titular bishop A titular bishop in various churche ...

† (1998-2001), appointed Bishop of San Fernando de Apure

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