The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabimas ( la, Dioecesis Cabimensis) is a

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located in the city of Cabimas in the

Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of seve ...

of Maracaibo in Venezuela.

History

On 23 July 1965

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established the Diocese of Cabimas from the Archdiocese of Maracaibo.

Bishops

Ordinaries

* Constantino Maradei Donato † (23 July 1965 – 18 November 1969) Appointed, Bishop of

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* Marco Tulio Ramírez Roa † (31 March 1970 – 26 October 1984) Appointed, Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela * Roberto Lückert León (27 April 1985 – 21 July 1993) Appointed, Bishop of Coro *

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(12 March 1994 – 30 December 2004) Appointed, Bishop of

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(26 July 2005 – 14 September 2018) *

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(29 January 2019 – present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

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, appointed Bishop of Machiques in 2019

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