Roman Catholic Diocese 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

• 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