Vicente Ramón Hernández Peña
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Vicente Ramón Hernández Peña (19 July 1935 – 25 March 2018) was a
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
bishop. Hernández Peña was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. From 1974 to 1982, he served as titular bishop of ''Sullectum'' and auxiliary bishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caracas The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Caracas is an ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela. It was founded as the Diocese of Caracas on June 20, 1637, and was later elevated to the rank of a metropolitan see ...
, Venezuela. Hernández Peña then served as coadjutor bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela The Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo () is a diocese located in the city of Trujillo, Trujillo, Trujillo in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida in Venezuela, Mérida in Venezuela. History On 4 June 1957 Pope Pi ...
and as bishop of the diocese from 1982 to 2012.Diocese of Trujillo
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