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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.
After the archbishop or bishop retires or dies, the coadjutor normally succeeds him without an appointment by the pope. The pope appoints all coadjutors. All active and retired (arch)bishops in the Philippines, coadjutor, and auxiliary — are members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
[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 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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo News Photo Staff. November 18, 2024 at 9:03 AM. A rescue boat along a flooded street following Super Typhoon Man-Yi, in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, on Nov. 18.
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 ...
American and foreign bishops were gradually succeeded by Filipino bishops by the 1950s. [ citation needed ] The Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 instituted a dramatic change for the Catholic Church in the Philippines, transforming the Latin Spanish church imposed upon the country to a Filipino church deeply rooted in Philippine culture ...