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Most archdioceses and large dioceses have one or more auxiliary bishops, serving under the direction of the archbishop or bishop. After consultation with the Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, the pope appoints all auxiliary bishops. Some archdioceses and dioceses have a coadjutor archbishop or coadjutor bishop. The coadjutor assists an elderly ...
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 ...
The territory of the Diocese of Butuan contained the Province of Agusan del Sur and Agusan del Norte, and Carmelo Dominador Morelos was its first bishop. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro. On October 15, 2024, the new Diocese of Prosperidad was carved out of the Diocese of Butuan.
During a preliminary assembly on July 9, 2023, in Kalibo, Aklan, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines voted in favor of the proposal of Bishop Cosme Almedilla of Butuan for the separation from Butuan of a new diocese that will cover the province of Agusan del Sur, which is considered a “missionary frontier” with a third of its population being indigenous peoples.
He was the first filipino cardinal from any diocese in the Philippines. Currently there are three active Filipino cardinals, Luis Antonio Tagle , current Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , Jose Advincula , current Archbishop of Manila , and Pablo Virgilio David , current Bishop of Kalookan .
He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Manila on May 29, 1961, as well as titular bishop of Catula, receiving his episcopal ordination on July 25, 1961. On January 25, 1967, he was appointed the very first bishop of the Diocese of San Pablo and would remain in office until his retirement on July 12, 1995.
Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos (December 12, 1930 – September 17, 2016) was a Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop.. Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, [1] Morelos was appointed as the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Butuan in the Philippines in 1967 serving the diocese until 1994 when he transferred to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zamboanga.
Hometown of Jorge Barlin. Jorge Barlín was born April 23, 1850, in Baao, Camarines Sur, the Philippines to Mateo Alfonso Barlín and Francisca Imperial.. He was ordained a priest on September 19, 1875, and consecrated a bishop on June 29, 1906, by Archbishop Ambrose Agius along with co-consecrators Archbishop Jeremiah James Harty and Bishop Frederick Zadok Rooker.