Roman Catholic Diocese of Baguio

Diocese of Baguio Dioecesis Baghiopolitanus Diocesis ti Baguio
Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral Mount Mary, Cathedral Loop, Baguio City
Location
Country	Philippines
Territory	City of Baguio, and the Province of Benguet
Ecclesiastical province	Nueva Segovia
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 701,000 509,242 (72.6%)
Parishes	26
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1992 July 06 (Apostolic Vicariate), 2004 June 24 (Diocese)
Cathedral	Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral
Patron saint	Our Lady of the Atonement
Secular priests	Diocesan: 41; Religious: 6
Current leadership
Pope	Pope Francis
Bishop	Carlito J. Cenzon
Metropolitan Archbishop	Marlo Mendoza Peralta
Vicar General	Benedict Castañeda
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baguio (Latin: Dioecesis Baghiopolitanus) is a Roman Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Nueva Segovia on Luzon island, in the Philippines. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Lady of Atonement, in Baguio City, Benguet, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). Since 2002, the bishop has been Carlito J. Cenzon.

History

The diocese of Baguio, one of the older ecclesiastical territories in the Philippines, was erected as the Apostolic Prefecture of Mountain Provinces on July 15, 1932 on territory split from the then bishopric of Nueva Segovia (now its Metropolitan).

On June 10, 1945, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to Apostolic Vicariate of Mountain Provinces (or Montagnosa), hence entitled to a titular bishop. It enjoyed a Papal visit from Pope John Paul II in February 1981.

In 1992, it was renamed the Apostolic Vicariate of Baguio, having lost territories to form the Apostolic Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe and the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk.

On June 24, 2004, it was elevated to Diocese of Baguio, losing its missionary pre-diocesan status and becoming a suffragan of its mother-diocese, the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

Ordinaries and Auxiliary episcopate

(all Roman Rite; mostly members of a (missionary) Latin congregation)

Apostolic Prefect of Mountain Provinces

• Giuseppe Billiet, Scheutists (C.I.C.M.) † (Appointed November 15, 1935 - Died 1947)

Apostolic Vicars of Mountain Provinces

• William Brasseur, C.I.C.M. † (Appointed June 10, 1948 - Retired November 7, 1981), Titular Bishop of Agathonice (1948.06.10 – death 1993.02.01)
• Emiliano Kulhi Madangeng † (7 Nov 1981 - 18 Dec 1987 Resigned), Titular Bishop of Trofimiana (1971.04.24 – death 1997.05.06), succeeded as former Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Mountain Provinces (1979.07.04 – 1981.11.07), previously Auxiliary Bishop of Mountain Provinces (1971.04.24 – 1979.07.04)
  • Auxiliary Bishop Sebastian Acol Dalis (1987.11.18 – 2000.07.11)

Apostolic Vicars of Baguio

• Ernesto Antolin Salgado (18 Dec 1987 Succeeded - 7 Dec 2000), Titular Bishop of Buruni (1986.10.17 – 2000.12.07), succeeded as former Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Mountain Provinces (Philippines) (1986.10.17 – 1987.12.18); later Bishop of Laoag (Philippines) (2000.12.07 – 2005.02.12), Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Segovia (Philippines) (2005.02.12 – 2013.12.30)
• Carlito J. Cenzon, C.I.C.M. (2002.01.25 – 24 June 2004 see below), Titular Bishop of Scebatiana (1992.07.06 – 2004.06.24), previously Apostolic Vicar of daughter vicariate Tabuk (Philippines) (1992.07.06 – 2002.01.25)

Suffragan Bishops of Baguio

• Carlito J. Cenzon, C.I.C.M. (see above 24 June 2004 - ...)

See also

• Catholic Church in the Philippines
• Our Lady of Covadonga, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary of La Trinidad and the Cordilleras

Sources and External links

• GCatholic with incumbent biography links