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The current bishop Emeritus of the diocese and Apostolic administrator is Sofronio Aguirre Bancud, S.S.S., D.D. He was appointed as auxiliary bishop on 2004 and installed as bishop on January 25, 2005. He officially retired on December 8, 2024 after he reached his mandatory retirement age of 76.
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 ...
[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.
Bishop Period in Office Coat of Arms 1. Florentino Ferrer Cinense, STL: May 24, 1984 - August 17, 1985 appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Tarlac: 2. Leo Murphy Drona, SDB: June 10, 1987 - May 14, 2004 appointed Bishop of San Pablo: 3. Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara, SThD: February 12, 2005 - June 23, 2011 appointed Bishop of Pasig: 4. Roberto Calara ...
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 ...
During the Philippine–American War, the cathedral's convent, shortly served as the seat of the capital of the Philippines [5] where Antonio Luna and his aide-de-camp, Francisco Román, were killed by the members of the Kawit Battalion on June 5, 1899. [1] [6] In 1934, the church was razed by fire wherein only its lateral walls were spared.
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 ...
On November 24, 2008, Bishop Soriano was re-elected for a third term as Bishop of the UM and was reassigned to Davao Episcopal Area. [ 7 ] In 2010 he and several other Filipino clergy petitioned the US government to apply pressure on the Filipino government regarding their handling of human rights.