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Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayombong

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Parishes
  
20

Sui iuris church
  
Latin Church

Area
  
6,961 km²

Country
  
Philippines

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Phone
  
+63 78 321 2170

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Sergio Utleg

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayombong

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2012)597,000421,000 (70.5%)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of St Dominic in Bayombong

Address
  
Bayombong, 3700, Philippines

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuguegarao

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayombong (Lat: Dioecesis Bayombongensis) is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Its seat is the Bayombong Cathedral.

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History

Erected in 1966, as the territorial prelature of Bayombong, the prelature was elevated to a full diocese in 1982. The diocese is a suffragan of the Diocese of Tuguegarao.

Ordinaries

  • Albert van Overbeke, C.I.C.M. † (18 Nov 1966 Appointed - 15 Sep 1986 Resigned)
  • Ramon B. Villena (15 Sep 1986 Succeeded - 28 May 2016 Retired)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayombong Wikipedia
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