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The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The Catholic Church in the Philippines comprises: 52 Latin Church dioceses led by bishops; 7 apostolic vicariates led by apostolic vicars; 5 territorial prelatures led by Bishop-Prelate; The Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, for military personnel
The Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Filipino: Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ng Iglesia ni Cristo) is the primary leader of the Philippine-based Christian denomination, the Iglesia ni Cristo. [2] There has been three Executive Ministers of the church since the Iglesia's founding in 1914 and all of them came from the Manalo family.
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP; Tagalog: Sangguniáng Pambansâ ng mga Simbahan sa Pilipinas) is a fellowship of ten Protestant and non Roman Catholic Churches in the Philippines denominations, and ten service-oriented organizations in the Philippines.
The Catholic dioceses in the Philippines are grouped into 16 ecclesiastical provinces, each of which comprises a metropolitan archdiocese and several suffragan dioceses and is headed by the archbishop, as the metropolitan bishop of the province.
Iglesia ni Cristo [2] (Tagalog: [ʔɪˈɡlɛːʃɐ nɪ ˈkɾiːsto]; Spanish: Iglesia de Cristo; transl. Church of Christ; abbreviated as INC) is an independent nontrinitarian Christian church founded in 1913 and registered by Felix Manalo in 1914 as a sole religious corporation of the Insular Government of the Philippines.
The Philippines has produced ten cardinals. The population of Catholics in the Philippines constitutes the country's largest religious denomination, as well as one of the largest Catholic populations among countries of the world. The Catholic faith was introduced to the Philippines by Spanish colonists in the sixteenth century. Some 400 years ...
Church and State today maintain generally cordial relations despite differing opinions over specific issues. With the guarantee of religious freedom in the Philippines, the Catholic clergy subsequently remained in the political background as a source of moral influence, especially during elections.
The following are the dioceses or bishoprics of the Philippine Independent Church (IFI), an Independent Catholic denomination with nationalist and Anglo-Catholic orientation, along with their respective bishops and cathedrals (seats of dioceses), which were organized by the church's Supreme Council of Bishops and bishops conference (as of 2025):