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The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The Catholic Church in the Philippines comprises: 75 Latin Church dioceses led by bishops; 7 apostolic vicariates led by apostolic vicars; 4 territorial prelatures led by Bishop-Prelate; The Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, for military personnel
Honesto "Nes" Flores Ongtioco (born October 17, 1948) is a Filipino bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Cubao from August 28, 2003 until his retirement was accepted on October 4, 2024.
He is the first Filipino cardinal from an ordinary episcopal see in the Philippines. There are currently three Filipino cardinal-electors: 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.
After the first bishop of Manila Domingo de Salazar, the diocese became an archdiocese and there have been nineteen archbishops of Spanish origin. In 1903, the archdiocese received its first American archbishop, Jeremiah James Harty from St. Louis, Missouri. After him, the Irishman Michael J. O'Doherty was appointed in 1916.
Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle (/ ˈ t ɑː ɡ l eɪ / TAH-glay; Tagalog: [lʊˈwis ɐnˈtonɪo 'taɡlɛ]; born June 21, 1957) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church currently serving as the Pro-Prefect for the Section of First Evangelization of the Dicastery for Evangelization (formerly the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) since June 5, 2022, [2] and as the President of ...
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 ...
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.
Eleven days after, on 21 June, Vatican appointed the Belgian missionary, Bishop William Brasseur as its first Vicar Apostolic. The apostolic vicariate was erected on 6 July 1992 with the apostolic constitution Ad aptius in Insulis Philippinis of Pope John Paul II . [ 3 ]