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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabanatuan (Latin: Dioecesis Cabanatuanensis) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. The diocese comprises 16 towns of Nueva Ecija including the cities of Cabanatuan , Palayan , and Gapan .
The pope appoints all archbishops and bishops, who must be at least ordained priests. The pope chooses from a list of candidates provided by the papal nuncio of the Philippines to the Congregation of Bishops in Rome. Most archdioceses and large dioceses have one or more auxiliary bishops, serving under the direction of the archbishop or bishop ...
The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; e.g., the fourth bishop of Manila is written "IV Manila". Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is the current bishop of that diocese. Titular sees are not listed. Under consecrators are the numbers (or letters) referencing ...
[1] [2] [3] The dioceses' bishops comprise the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), an episcopal conference. Apostolic vicariates and the military ordinariate are not part of any ecclesiastical province, but are included in the table.
The Diocese of San Jose, Nueva Ecija, was created on Feb. 16, 1984 by Pope John Paul II and canonically erected on July 14, 1984. Its territory was taken from the Diocese of Cabanatuan which at same time of the division comprised the entire province of Nueva Ecija.
In 2016 he was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Urusi and Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen–Dagupan. On May 24, 2018 he was appointed by Pope Francis to become Bishop of Bayombong. [5] He was a former chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic ...
The Minor Basilica and National Shrine of La Virgen Divina Pastora, known canonically as the Three Kings Parish and commonly known as Gapan Church, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Gapan, Nueva Ecija in the Philippines that was founded in the 1500s. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Cabanatuan.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines [a] (CBCP) is the permanent organizational assembly of the Catholic bishops of the Philippines exercising together certain pastoral offices for the Christian faithful of their territory through apostolic plans, programs and projects suited to the circumstances of time and place in accordance with law for the promotion of the greater good ...