Archdiocese of Caceres
| Archdiocese of Caceres | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Diocesan bishop | Rolando Tria Joven Tirona OCD |
| founding | August 14, 1595 |
| surface | 3,207 km² |
| Parishes | 92 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,772,300 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 1,686,930 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 95.2% |
| Diocesan priest | 163 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 24 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,021 |
| Friars | 151 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 244 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
Filipino English |
| cathedral | Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist |
| Website | www.caceres-naga.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Daet Diocese of Legazpi Diocese of Libmanan Diocese of Masbate Diocese of Sorsogon Diocese of Virac |
The Archdiocese of Caceres ( lat. : Archidioecesis Cacerensis ) is the Philippines located Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Naga City .
history
The Archdiocese of Caceres was established on August 14, 1595 by Pope Clement VIII with the Apostolic Constitution Super specula militantis Ecclesiae from cessions of territory from the Archdiocese of Manila as the Diocese of Caceres and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Manila as a suffragan . On June 29, 1951, the diocese of Caceres gave up parts of its territory to establish the dioceses of Legazpi and Sorsogon .
The diocese of Caceres was on June 29, 1951 by Pope Pius XII. with the Apostolic Constitution Quo in Philippina Republica raised to the archbishopric. On December 9, 1989, the Archdiocese of Caceres gave up parts of its territory to establish the Territorial Prelature Libmanan .
The Archdiocese of Caceres includes the province of Camarines Sur .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Caceres
- Luis Maldonado OFM , 1595–…
- Francisco Ortega OSA , 1599-1602
- Baltazar de Covarrubias y Múñoz OSA, 1603–1605, then Bishop of Antequera
- Pedro de Godinez OFM, 1605–…
- Pedro Matias , 1612–…
- Diego Guevara OSA, 1616-1623
- Luis de Cañizares OM , 1624–1628, then coadjutor bishop of Comayagua
- Francisco de Zamudio y Avendaño OSA, 1628-1639
- Nicolas de Zaldivar y Zapata OSA, 1644-1646
- Antonio de San Gregorio, OFM, 1659-1661
- Andrés González OP , 1685-1709
- Domingo de Valencia , 1718-1719
- Felipe Molina y Figueroa , 1724-1738
- Isidro de Arevalo , 1740-1751
- Manuel de Matos OFM, 1754-1767
- Antonio de Luna, OFM, 1768-1773
- Juan Antonio Gallego y Orbigo OFM, 1778–1788, then Archbishop of Manila
- Juan García Ruiz OSA, 1784-1796
- Domingo Collantes OP, 1788-1808
- Bernardo de la Inmaculada Concepción García Hernández OFM, 1816–1829
- Juan Antonio Lillo, OFM, 1831-1840
- Vicente Barreiro y Pérez OSA, 1846–1848, then Bishop of Nueva Segovia
- Manuel Grijalvo y Mínguez , 1848–1861
- Francisco Gainza Escobás OP, 1862–1879
- Casimiro Herrero Pérez OSA, 1880-1886
- Arsenio del Campo y Monasterio OSA, 1887–1903
- Jorge Barlin Imperial , 1905-1909
- John Bernard MacGinley , 1910–1924, then Bishop of Monterey-Fresno
- Francisco Javier Reyes , 1925-1937
- Pedro Paulo Santos Songco , 1938–1951
Archbishops of Caceres
- Pedro Paulo Santos Songco, 1951-1965
- Teopisto Valderrama Alberto , 1965–1983
- Leonard Zamora Legaspi OP, 1983–2012
- Rolando Tria Joven Tirona OCD, since 2012
Important churches
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Archdiocese of Caceres (English)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Caceres on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
