Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cumaná

History

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Sixto Sosa Díaz †
• Crisanto Darío Mata Cova † Appointed, Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar
• Mariano José Parra León †
• Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa †
• Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez
• Jesús González de Zárate Salas

  Auxiliary bishops

• Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, appointed Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
• Pedro Pablo Tenreiro Francia, appointed Bishop of Guanare
• Eduardo Herrera Riera, appointed Bishop of Guanare
• Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez, appointed Bishop of Carúpano

  Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Antonio José Ramírez Salaverría, appointed Bishop of Maturín in 1958
• Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ciudad Bolívar in 1963
• Mariano José Parra Sandoval, appointed Bishop of San Fernando de Apure in 1994

  Suffragan dioceses

• Barcelona
• Carúpano
• El Tigre
• Margarita