Diocese of San Jose de Antique

	Diocese of San Jose de Antique
Basic data
Country	Philippines
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Jaro
Diocesan bishop	Marvyn Maceda
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Raul José Quimpo Martirez
founding	1962
surface	2,552 km²
Parishes	25 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
Residents	618,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
Catholics	436,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
proportion of	70.6%
Diocesan priest	43 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
Religious priest	7 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
Catholics per priest	8,720
Friars	14 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
Religious sisters	65 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Filipino ; English
cathedral	St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral
Website	http://www.dioceseofsanjosedeantique.org

The Diocese of San Jose de Antique ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi de Antiquonia ) is on the island of Panay in the Philippines located Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Jose de Antique . It includes the province of Antique .

history

Pope John XXIII established the territorial prelature of San Jose de Antique with the Apostolic Constitution Novae cuiusque on March 24, 1962 from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Jaro .

On November 15, 1982 it was raised to a diocese with the Apostolic Constitution Cum Decessores and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Jaro as a suffragan diocese.

Ordinaries

Prelate of San Jose de Antique

Cornelius de Wit MHM (April 12, 1962– August 9, 1982)

Bishops of San Jose de Antique

Raul José Quimpo Martirez (January 5, 1983– March 16, 2002)
Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz (March 16, 2002– May 14, 2008, then Bishop of Kidapawan )
Jose Romeo Orquejo Lazo (July 21, 2009– February 14, 2018), then Archbishop of Jaro
Marvyn Maceda (since January 7, 2019)

Web links

Entry for Diocese of San Jose de Antique on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry on Diocese of San Jose de Antique on gcatholic.org (English)