Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Calabozo in Venezuela.
Its cathedral episcopal see is, located in the city of San Fernando de Apure.
History
- It was established on 7 June 1954 as Territorial Prelature of San Fernando de Apure, on territories split off from the Dioceses of Calabozo and San Cristóbal de Venezuela
- Promoted on 12 November 1974 as Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
- It lost territory on 3 December 2015 to establish the Diocese of Guasdualito
Episcopal ordinaries
;Territorial Prelates of San Fernando de Apure- Bishop-prelate Angel Adolfo Polachini Rodriguez, Titular Bishop of Rusticiana ; later Bishop of Guanare
- Bishop-prelate Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcátegui, Titular Bishop of Aurusuliana
- Roberto Antonio Dávila Uzcátegui ; later Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas & Titular Bishop of Arindela
- Apostolic Administrator Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, S.D.B. while Titular Bishop of Utimmira & Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Ayacucho ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas, created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Domenica Mazzarello
- Mariano José Parra Sandoval ; later Bishop of Ciudad Guayana, Archbishop of Coro
- Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas ; previously Titular Bishop of Tagaria & Auxiliary Bishop of Calabozo
- Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón ; previously Titular Bishop of Sassura & Auxiliary Bishop of Mérida