Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barquisimeto

History

• Established on 7 March 1863 as Diocese of Barquisimeto, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Mérida
• Suppressed on 14 August 1867, its territory reassigned to the new, short-lived Diocese of Coro y Barquisimeto
• Restored on 22 October 1869 as Diocese of Barquisimeto from that Diocese of Coro y Barquisimeto
• Lost territory on 12 October 1922 to establish the Diocese of Coro and on 7 June 1954 to establish the Diocese of Guanare, its own suffragan
• Promoted on 30 April 1966 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Barquisimeto.
• Lost territory again to establish two more suffragans : on 7 October 1966 the Diocese of San Felipe and on 25 July 1922 the Diocese of Carora.

  Special churches

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

• Victor José Díez Navarrete, previously Bishop of Coro y Barquisimeto
• Gregorio Rodríguez y Obregón
• Aguedo Felipe Alvarado Liscano
• Enrique María Dubuc Moreno, previously Titular Bishop of Zaraï & Coadjutor Bishop of Barquisimeto
• Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel

• Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel, also President of Episcopal Conference of Venezuela
• Tulio Manuel Chirivella Varela
• Antonio José López Castillo ; previously Titular Bishop of Theuzi & Auxiliary Bishop of Maracaibo , Bishop of Barinas , Metropolitan Archbishop of Calabozo

  Coadjutor bishop

• Enrique María Dubuc Moreno

  Auxiliary bishops

• Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce,appointed Bishop of La Guaira
• Eduardo Herrera Riera, appointed Bishop of Carora
• José Luis Azuaje Ayala, appointed Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia

  Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cumaná in 1997

  Province

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Acarigua–Araure
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Carora
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Guanare
• Roman Catholic Diocese of San Felipe, Venezuela