The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida (Latin: Archidioecesis Emeritensis in Venetiola) is a Latin Rite Metropolitan Archdiocese in western Venezuela.

Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Catedral Basílica Menor de la Inmaculada Concepción de Mérida, a minor basilica located in the city of Mérida. It also has the Minor Basilica of Santa Lucía, in Timotes town, Miranda, Mérida municipality.

• On 16 February 1778 Pope Pius VI established the Diocese of Mérida, on territories split off from the then Diocese of Caracas and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada in Colombia.
• It lost territory repeatedly : on 1863.03.07 to establish the Dioceses of Barquisimeto (now a Metropolitan) and Calabozo; on 1897.07.28 to establish Diocese of Zulia; on 1922.10.12 to establish its suffragan Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
• Pope Pius IX elevated the diocese to Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mérida on 11 June 11, 1923.
• It lost more territory to establish two more suffragans : on 1957.06.04 Trujillo, on 1965.07.23 Barinas
• It enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II in January 1985.
• On 1994.07.07 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of El Vigía–San Carlos del Zulia
• On 3 December 2015 it was assigned another suffragan see, the newly created Diocese of Guasdualito

As per 2014, it pastorally served 566,519 Catholics (85.0% of 666,491 total) on 8,109 km in 62 parishes and 14 missions with 133 priests (98 diocesan, 35 religious), 21 deacons, 277 lay religious (59 brothers, 218 sisters) and 46 seminarians.

• Juan Ramos de Lora [es], O.F.M. (1782–1790)
• Cándido Manuel de Torrijos Riguerra, O.P. (1791–1794)
• Antonio Ramón de Espinosa (y Lorenzo), O.P. (1795–1800)
• Santiago Hernández Milanés (1801–1812)
• Rafael Lasso de la Vega (1816–1828), appointed Bishop of Quito
• José Buenaventura Arias Bergara (1828–1831)
• José Vicente de Unda (1836–1840)
• Juan Hilario Bosset (1842–1873)
• Thomas Zerpa (1876), did not take effect
• Román Lovera (1880–1892)
• Antonio Ramón Silva (1894–1923)

• Antonio Ramón Silva (1923–1927)
• Acacio Chacón Guerra (1927–1966)
• José Rafael Pulido Méndez (1966–1972)
• Angel Pérez Cisneros (1972–1979)
• Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M. (1979–1991)
• Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (1991–2023) (elevated to cardinal in 2016)
• Helizandro Terán Bermúdez (2023–present)

• Acacio Chacón Guerra (1926-1927)
• José Humberto Quintero Parra (1953-1960), did not succeed to see; appointed Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela (cardinal in 1961)
• José Rafael Pulido Méndez (1961-1966)
• Angel Pérez Cisneros (1969-1972)
• Helizandro Terán Bermúdez (2022–2023)

• Jose Buenaventura Arias Bergara (1827–1829)
• Juan María Leonardi Villasmil (1994–1997), appointed Bishop of Punto Fijo
• Luis Alfonso Márquez Molina, C.I.M. (2001–2013)
• Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón (2013–2016), appointed Bishop of San Fernando de Apure
• Luis Enrique Rojas Ruiz (2017–present)

• Juan de Dios Peña Rojas, appointed Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia in 2015

The Metropolitan's ecclesiastical province comprises his own archbishopric and the following Suffragan sees :

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Barinas, its daughter
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Guasdualito
• Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela, its daughter
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Trujillo, Venezuela

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

• GCatholic.org - data for all sections
• Diocese website
• Catholic Hierarchy

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