Diocese of Cabimas

Diocese of Cabimas
Basic data
State	Venezuela
Metropolitan Bishopric	Archdiocese of Maracaibo
Diocesan Bishop	Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín
Emeritus diocesan bishop	William Enrique Delgado Silva
Foundation	1965
Area	9345 km²
Parishes	48 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Inhabitants	995.000 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Catholics	892.000 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Share	89,6 %
Diocesan Priest	52 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Religious priest	6 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Catholics per priest	15.379
Friars	7 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Religious Sisters	12 (12/31/2014 / AP2016)
Rite	Roman Rite
Liturgical language	Spanish
Cathedral	Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario

The Diocese of Cabimas (Latin: Dioecesis Cabimensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese located in Venezuela, with its seat in Cabimas

Cathedral in Cabimas

History

The Diocese of Cabimas was erected on July 23, 1965, by Pope Paul VI with the Apostolic Constitution Christianae familiae, from territorial cessions of the Diocese of Maracaibo.^[1] On 7 July 1994, the Diocese of Cabimas ceded parts of its territory to create the Diocese of El Vigía-San Carlos del Zulia.

It was placed under the Archbishopric of Maracaibo as a suffragan bishopric.

Bishops of Cabimas

• Constantino Maradei Donato, 1965-1969, then Bishop of Barcelona
• Marco Tulio Ramírez Roa, 1970-1984, then Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
• Roberto Lückert León, 1985-1993, then Bishop of Coro
• Freddy Jesús Fuenmayor Suárez, 1994-2004, then Bishop of Los Teques
• William Enrique Delgado Silva, 2005-2018
• Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín since 2019

See also

• List of Roman Catholic dioceses
• Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela

Web links

• Entry for Diocese of Cabimas on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual references

1. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost Christianae familiaeAAS 58 (1966), n. 5, p. 346ff.