Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela is a diocese located in the city of San Cristóbal in the ecclesiastical province of Mérida in Venezuela.History
On 12 October 1922 Pope Pius XI established the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela from the Diocese of Mérida.Special churches
Ordinaries
- Tomás Antonio Sanmiguel Díaz †
- Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco † Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Caracas
- Alejandro Fernández Feo-Tinoco †
- Marco Tulio Ramírez Roa †
- Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez
Auxiliary Bishop
- Juan Alberto Ayala Ramírez (2020-
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- José Léon Rojas Chaparro †, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Trujillo in 1961
- José Hernán Sánchez Porras †, appointed Bishop of Venezuela, Military in 2000
- Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón, appointed Bishop of Margarita in 2008
- Francisco Gerardo Escalante Molina, appointed nuncio and titular Archbishop in 2016
