Archdiocese of San Fernando
| Archdiocese of San Fernando | |
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| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Philippines |
| Diocesan bishop | Florentino Galang Lavarias |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Paciano Basilio Aniceto |
| founding | 1948 |
| surface | 2,180 km² |
| Parishes | 94 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 3,630,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 3,388,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 93.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 161 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 14 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 19,360 |
| Friars | 36 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 119 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language |
Filipino English |
| cathedral | Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Ferdinand |
| Website | www.rcasf.com |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Balanga Diocese of Iba Diocese of Tarlac |
The Archdiocese of San Fernando ( lat. : Archidioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi ) is the Philippines located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in San Fernando . It includes the Pampanga Province .
history
Pope Pius XII established the diocese of San Fernando with the bull sample noscitur on December 11, 1948 from cessions of territory of the archdiocese of Manila , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. In 1950 the seminary was founded under the patronage of the Mother of Good Council .
With the apostolic constitution Aptam Ecclesiarum , the diocese of San Fernando was elevated to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric on March 17, 1975 . It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- June 12, 1955 to the Iba Territorial Prelature ;
- February 16, 1963 to the Diocese of Tarlac ;
- February 16, 1963 to the Diocese of Cabanatuan ;
- March 17, 1975 to the Diocese of Balanga .
Ordinaries
Bishops of San Fernando
- Cesare Marie Guerrero (May 14, 1949 - March 14, 1957)
- Emilio Cinense y Abera (March 15, 1957 - March 17, 1975)
Archbishops of San Fernando
- Emilio Cinense y Abera (March 17, 1975 - May 5, 1978)
- Oscar V. Cruz (May 22, 1978 - October 24, 1988)
- Paciano Basilio Aniceto (January 31, 1989 - July 25, 2014)
- Florentino Galang Lavarias (since July 25, 2014)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1950 | 884,338 | 982.765 | 90.0 | 116 | 103 | 13 | 7,623 | 30th | 89 | ||
| 1970 | 657.289 | 799.104 | 82.3 | 109 | 97 | 12 | 6,030 | 16 | 83 | 59 | |
| 1980 | 968,000 | 1,043,000 | 92.8 | 87 | 78 | 9 | 11,126 | 16 | 104 | 51 | |
| 1990 | 1,435,000 | 1,455,000 | 98.6 | 142 | 119 | 23 | 10,105 | 28 | 100 | 64 | |
| 1999 | 2,037,218 | 2,765,872 | 73.7 | 144 | 128 | 16 | 14,147 | 38 | 108 | 84 | |
| 2000 | 2,671,487 | 2,840,178 | 94.1 | 148 | 134 | 14th | 18,050 | 38 | 142 | 84 | |
| 2001 | 2,732,420 | 2,978,850 | 91.7 | 156 | 138 | 18th | 17,515 | 44 | 144 | 84 | |
| 2002 | 2,791,444 | 2,998,194 | 93.1 | 157 | 141 | 16 | 17,779 | 43 | 145 | 90 | |
| 2003 | 2,865,530 | 3,115,020 | 92.0 | 160 | 144 | 16 | 17,909 | 43 | 155 | 92 | |
| 2004 | 2,800,000 | 3,000,000 | 93.3 | 162 | 145 | 17th | 17,283 | 52 | 152 | 93 | |
| 2010 | 3,145,000 | 3,370,000 | 93.3 | 164 | 150 | 14th | 19,176 | 36 | 118 | 92 | |
See also
Web links
Commons : Archdiocese of San Fernando - Collection of images, videos and audio files
