Diocese of Bayombong Dioecesis Bayombongensis Diyosesis ng Bayombong Diocesis ti Bayombong Diócesis de Bayombong | |
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Coat of arms | |
Location | |
Country | Philippines |
Territory | |
Ecclesiastical province | Tuguegarao |
Metropolitan | Tuguegarao |
Statistics | |
Area | 6,961 km2 (2,688 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2020) 1,135,030 637,000 (56.1%) |
Parishes | 20 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Cathedral | Cathedral-Parish of St. Dominic of Guzman |
Patron saint | Dominic of Guzman Vincent Ferrer (secondary) |
Secular priests | 27 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Jose Elmer I. Mangalinao |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Ricardo Baccay |
Bishops emeritus | Ramon B. Villena |
Statistics from Catholic-Hierarchy.org |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayombong (former Territorial Prelature of Bayombong) (Lat: Dioecesis Bayombongensis; formerly known as Praelatura Territorialis Bayombongensis) is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Its seat is the Bayombong Cathedral.
Erected on November 7, 1966, through the apostolic constitution Patris Instar as the Territorial Prelature of Bayombong,[1] the said prelature was elevated to a diocese in November 1982 by Pope John Paul II through apostolic constitution Cum Decessores Nostri Romani Pontifices.[2][3] The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao.
After the resignation of Bishop Ramon Villena in 2016, Pope Francis appointed Sofronio Aguirre Bancud, SSS, DD, Bishop of Cabanatuan as Apostolic Administrator. On May 24, 2018, the Pope appointed Jose Elmer I. Mangalinao, DD, Auxiliary Bishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, as the third Bishop of the Diocese of Bayombong.
Bishop | Period in Office | Coat of Arms | Ref. | |
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1. | Albert Van Overbeke, CICM, D.D. | November 18, 1966 – September 15, 1986 (resigned) | [4] | |
2. | Ramon B. Villena, D.D. | September 15, 1986 (succeeded) – May 28, 2016 (retired) | [5] | |
3. | Jose Elmer L. Mangalino, SThL, D.D. | May 24, 2018 – present | [6] |