The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar ( la, Civitatis Bolivaren(sis)) is an

archdiocese In 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 provinces were administratively associat ...

located in the city of

Ciudad Bolívar Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about in width, is the si ...

in Venezuela.

History

*20 May 1790: Established as Diocese of Santo Tomás de Guayana from the Diocese of Puerto Rico in

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...

*20 January 1953: Renamed as Diocese of Ciudad Bolívar *21 June 1958: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar

Bishops

Ordinaries

*Francisco de Ibarra y Herrera † (19 Dec 1791 – 14 Dec 1798) Appointed, Bishop of

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in th ...

*José Antonio García Mohedano † (11 Aug 1800 – 17 Oct 1804) *Mariano Talavera y Garcés † (22 Dec 1828 – 1842) *Mariano Fernández Fortique † (12 Jul 1841 – 6 Feb 1854) *José Manuel Arroyo y Niño † (19 Jun 1856 – 30 Nov 1884) *Manuel Felipe Rodríguez Delgado † (30 Jul 1885 – 13 Dec 1887) *Antonio María Durán † (25 Sep 1891 – 18 Jul 1917) *Sixto Sosa Díaz † (5 Dec 1918 – 16 Jun 1923) Appointed, Bishop of

Cumaná Cumaná () is the capital city of Venezuela's Sucre State. It is located east of Caracas. Cumaná was one of the first cities founded by Spain in the mainland Americas and is the oldest continuously-inhabited Hispanic-established city in South ...

*Miguel Antonio Mejía † (22 Jun 1923 – 6 Oct 1947) *Juan José Bernal Ortiz † (21 Oct 1949 – 25 Jul 1965) Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Los Teques *Crisanto Darío Mata Cova † (30 Apr 1966 – 26 May 1986) * Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero † (26 May 1986 – 27 Aug 2011) *Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes, O. de M. (27 Aug 2011 – present)

Auxiliary bishops

* Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez (1963-1966), appointed Bishop of San Felipe * Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza (1967-1969), appointed Bishop of Margarita * José de Jesús Nuñez Viloria (1982-1987), appointed Bishop of Ciudad Guayana

Suffragan dioceses

Ciudad Guayana Ciudad Guayana () (in English Guayana City) is a city in Bolívar State, Venezuela. It stretches 40 kilometers along the south bank of the Orinoco river, at the point where it is joined by its main tributary, the Caroní river. The Caroni cro ...

Maturín Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inha ...

References

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Sources

Roman Catholic dioceses in Venezuela Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Ciudad Bolívar Religious organizations established in 1790 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 18th century 1790 establishments in the Viceroyalty of New Granada {{SouthAm-RC-diocese-stub