The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Guayana ( la, Dioecesis Civitatis Guayanensis) 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 city of

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

in the

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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, Venezuela, Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about ...

in Venezuela.

History

On 20 August 1979

Blessed John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

established the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero (17 April 1934 – 27 November 2018) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic archbishop. Biography Luzardo Romero was born in Venezuela and was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. Luzardo Romero served as bishop of the Ro ...

(20 August 1979 – 26 May 1986) Appointed, Archbishop of

*José de Jesús Nuñez Viloria (13 January 1987 – 21 July 1990) *Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I. (2 May 1991 – 11 November 2000) Appointed, Archbishop of

Maracaibo ) , motto = "''Muy noble y leal''"(English: "Very noble and loyal") , anthem = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_alt = ...

*Mariano José Parra Sandoval (10 July 2001 – 25 October 2016) Appointed, Archbishop of Coro * Helizandro Emiro Terán Bermúdez, O.S.A. (29 July 2017 – 19 March 2022)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín Angel is a given name meaning "angel", "messenger". In the English-speaking world Angel is used for both boys and girls. From the medieval Latin masculine name ''Angelus'', which was derived from the name of the heavenly creature (itself derived ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Maracaibo in 2012 *

Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

, appointed Bishop of Acarigua-Araure in 2015

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