Diocese of San Jose de Antique
Diocese of San Jose de Antique | |
Basic data | |
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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)
See also
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)