Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
José de Jesús Núñez Viloria | |
Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guayana | |
Metropolis: | Ciudad Bolívar |
Diocese: | Ciudad Guayana |
Appointed: | 13 January 1987 |
Term End: | 21 July 1990 |
Predecessor: | Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero |
Successor: | Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera |
Previous Post: | Auxiliary Bishop of Ciudad Bolívar and Titular Bishop of Cenae (1982–1987) |
Ordination: | 12 August 1962 |
Consecration: | 19 March 1982 |
Consecrated By: | José Léon Rojas Chaparro |
Birth Date: | 1938 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Betijoque, Venezuela |
Death Place: | Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela |
José de Jesús Núñez Viloria (2 January 1938 – 3 July 2024) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, who served as an auxiliary bishop of Ciudad Bolívar (1982–1987) and a diocesan bishop of Ciudad Guayana (1987–1990).
Núñez Viloria was born in Betijoque, Trujillo State in Venezuela and was ordained priest on 12 August 1962.
He was elected to the titular see of Cenae and at the same time appointed auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar on 8 January 1982, he received the episcopal consecration on the following 19 March. On 13 January 1987, he was transferred as a diocesan bishop to the residential see of Ciudad Guayana and on 21 July 1990 he renounced the pastoral governance of the diocese.[1]