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Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose de Antique

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Territory
  
Metropolitan
  
Jaro

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Cathedral
  
Antique

Country
  
Ecclesiastical province
  
Jaro

Parishes
  
25

Area
  
2,552 km²

Phone
  
+63 36 540 8116

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2010)574,000405,000 (70.6%)

Address
  
Bishop's House, Bantayan Road, 5700, Philippines

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose de Antique (Lat: Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi de Antiquonia) is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church centered in the city of San Jose de Buenavista, Antique in the Philippines.

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Erected on 18 June 1962 as the Territorial Prelature of San Jose de Antique, the territorial prelate was separated from the Archdiocese of Jaro. It comprises the whole province of Antique.

On 15 November 1982, the prelature was elevated to a diocese, and became suffragan to the Archdiocese of Jaro.

Currently, the local ordinary is the Most Reverend Jose Romeo O. Lazo, D.D.

List of Local Ordinaries

  • Cornelius de Wit, M.H.M. † (12 Apr 1962 Appointed - 9 Aug 1982 Resigned)
  • Raul José Quimpo Martirez (5 Jan 1983 Appointed - 16 Mar 2002 Resigned)
  • Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz (16 Mar 2002 Succeeded - 14 May 2008 Appointed, Bishop of Kidapawan, now [Archbishop of Zamboanga])
  • Jose Romeo Orquejo Lazo (21 July 2009 – present)
  • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose de Antique Wikipedia


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