Diocese of Digos
Diocese of Digos | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Philippines |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Davao |
Diocesan bishop | Guillermo Dela Vega Afable |
founding | 1979 |
surface | 3,938 km² |
Parishes | 20 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,209,475 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 826,763 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 68.4% |
Diocesan priest | 35 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 22 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 14,505 |
Friars | 44 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 98 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language |
Filipino English |
cathedral | Mary, Mother and Mediatrix of Grace Cathedral |
Website | http://www.cbcponline.net/digos/ |
The Diocese of Digos ( Latin : Dioecesis Digosensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese located in the south of Mindanao Island in the Philippines , with its seat in Digos City . It includes the Philippine province of Davao del Sur .
history
Pope John Paul II founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Sacer praesul Ecclesiae on November 5, 1979 from cession of territory from the Archdiocese of Davao , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
Bishops of Digos
- Generoso C. Camiña PME (December 20, 1979 - February 11, 2003, resigned)
- Guillermo Dela Vega Afable , since February 11, 2003