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The Archdiocese of Davao (Latin: Archidioecesis Davaensis) is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It is a metropolitan see in southern Mindanao. The archdiocese comprises the city of Davao, The Island Garden City of Samal, and the municipality of Talaingod, Davao del Norte in Davao del Norte.
Hundreds of police officers backed by riot squads raided a vast religious compound in a southern Philippine city Saturday in search of a local preacher accused of sexual abuse and human ...
Romulo Geolina Valles (born July 10, 1951), is the current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Davao in Davao City, on the island of Mindanao, Philippines and was the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from 2017 to 2021. He was the former archbishop of Zamboanga before being appointed to the Davao see.
National police arrested Quiboloy, a self-styled “appointed son of God” and founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ church (KOJC), along with four of his aides in the southern city of Davao ...
Erected in 1979, the diocese was created from territory in the Archdiocese of Davao. The diocese has experienced no jurisdictional changes, and is currently a suffragan of the archdiocese. The current bishop is Guillermo Dela Vega Afable, appointed in 2003. The 2 provinces of Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental are under the jurisdiction of this ...
Quiboloy, 74, is the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Church and reportedly has a long relationship with former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, dating back to when Duterte was the ...
George Beluso Rimando (born February 2, 1953) is an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Davao in the Philippines. [1] Rimando was ordained a priest on April 22, 1980. On March 4, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Davao and Titular Bishop of Vada.
He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Davao on April 2, 1975, at the age of 40. He was also appointed titular bishop of Grumentum on that same date. On April 25, 1977, he was appointed bishop-prelate of Iligan City in Lanao del Norte province and subsequently appointed bishop on November 15, 1982, when it was raised to a full-fledged diocese.