Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabimas

Diocese of Cabimas Dioecesis Cabimensis
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
Location
Country	Venezuela
Ecclesiastical province	Maracaibo
Statistics
Area	9,342 km2 (3,607 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 797,560 739,380 (92.7%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	23 July 1965 (59 years ago)
Cathedral	Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín
Bishops emeritus	William Enrique Delgado Silva
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabimas (Latin: Dioecesis Cabimensis) is a diocese located in the city of Cabimas in the ecclesiastical province of Maracaibo in Venezuela.

History

On 23 July 1965 Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Cabimas from the Archdiocese of Maracaibo.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Constantino Maradei Donato † (23 July 1965 – 18 November 1969) Appointed, Bishop of Barcelona
• 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
• Freddy Jesús Fuenmayor Suárez (12 March 1994 – 30 December 2004) Appointed, Bishop of Los Teques
• William Enrique Delgado Silva (26 July 2005 – 14 September 2018)
• Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín (29 January 2019 – present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Nicolás Gregorio Nava Rojas, appointed Bishop of Machiques in 2019

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Venezuela

External links

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}