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All archbishops, diocesan bishops, and auxiliary bishops have their one superior which is the Pope who appoints them. All active and retired (arch)bishops in the Philippines, coadjutor , and auxiliary — are members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
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.
He was named titular bishop of Talaptula and auxiliary bishop of Manila on February 25, 1997, and was ordained on March 31 of the same year. [1] He was appointed as the first bishop of the Diocese of Parañaque on 7 December 2002 and formally installed on 28 January 2003.
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.
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 .
José María Querejeta, a Spaniard, is the first ever Claretian bishop assigned to a bishop role in the Philippines, also in Basilan. [5] His episcopal ordination and the rite of canonical possession- installation was held at Cubao Cathedral on December 3, coinciding with the feast of Francis Xavier .
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.
Pablo Virgilio "Ambo" Siongco David (born March 2, 1959) is a Filipino Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Kalookan since 2015. He is president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines. He was made cardinal on 7 December 2024 by Pope Francis.