Conferencia Episcopal Venezolana (C.E.V.)

Conference of Bishops

Also known as: Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (English)

Address: Avenida Teherán (antigua prolongación de la Av. Páez), frente a la Iglesia Juan Pablo II, Urbanización Montalban II, Caracas 1020, Venezuela

Phone: 414.904.4352; (0212) 471.4981

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History

1973: Established as Conferencia Episcopal Venezolana (C.E.V.) (español) / Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (English)

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Present Officials

President (2022.01.07 – ...):	Archbishop Jesús Andoni González de Zárate Salas (65) Metropolitan Archbishop of Valencia (Venezuela)
Vice-President (2025.02.11 – ...):	Archbishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala (68) Metropolitan Archbishop of Maracaibo (Venezuela) First Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council
Second Vice-President (2025.02.11 – ...):	Bishop Carlos Enrique Curiel Herrera, Sch. P. (66) Bishop of Carora (Venezuela)
General Secretary (2023.07.11 – ...):	Bishop José Antonio Da Conceição Ferreira (56) Bishop of Puerto Cabello (Venezuela)

Past Officials

President: Archbishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala (68) (2018.01.09 – 2022.01.07)
President: Archbishop Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez (87) (later Cardinal) (2012.01.12 – 2018.01.09)
President: Archbishop Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I. (85) (2006 – 2012.01.12)
President: Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (81) (later Cardinal) (1999 – 2006)
President: Archbishop Tulio Manuel Chirivella Varela (1996 – 1999)
President: Archbishop Ramón Ovidio Pérez Morales (94) (1990 – 1996)
President: Cardinal José Alí Lebrún Moratinos (1984 – 1990)
President: Archbishop Domingo Roa Pérez (1978 – 1984)
President: Archbishop Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel (1972 – 1978)
President: Cardinal José Humberto Quintero Parra (1961 – 1972)
President: Archbishop Acacio Chacón Guerra (1958 – 1961)
Vice-President: Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez (2018.01.09 – 2025.02.11)
Vice-President: Bishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala (68) (later Archbishop) (2012.01.12 – 2018.01.09)
Vice-President: Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (81) (later Cardinal) (2009 – 2012)
Vice-President: Archbishop Roberto Lückert León (2006 – 2009)
Vice-President: Cardinal Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, S.D.B. (1999 – 2003)
Vice-President: Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (81) (later Cardinal) (1993 – 1999)
Second Vice-President: Archbishop Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes, O. de M. (75) (2022.01.07 – 2025.02.11)
Second Vice-President: Bishop Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B. (63) (later Archbishop) (2018.01.09 – 2022.01.07)
Second Vice-President: Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez (2012.01.12 – 2018.01.09)
Second Vice-President: Archbishop Roberto Lückert León (2009 – 2012)
Second Vice-President: Cardinal Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (2006 – 2009)
Second Vice-President: Archbishop Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, S.D.B. (later Cardinal) (1996 – 1999)
General Secretary: Bishop Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B. (63) (later Archbishop) (2022.01.07 – 2023.07.11)
General Secretary: Bishop José Trinidad Fernández Angulo (62) (2018.01.09 – 2022.01.07)
General Secretary: Bishop Víctor Hugo Basabe (64) (later Archbishop) (2015 – 2018.01.09)
General Secretary: Bishop Jesús Andoni González de Zárate Salas (65) (later Archbishop) (2009 – 2015)
General Secretary: Bishop Ramón José Viloria Pinzón, H.S.O.D. (2006 – 2009)
General Secretary: Bishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala (68) (later Archbishop) (2001 – 2006)
General Secretary: Bishop-elect José Hernán Sánchez Porras (1996.07 – 2001.01)
General Secretary: Bishop José Vicente Henríquez Andueza, S.D.B. (1985.06.12 – ?)

Last updated on 2026.09.04