Territorial Prelature of Marawi, Philippines

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Marawi / Maravien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Ozamiz

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Mary, Help of Christians, Saint Tomás de Villanueva

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1976.11.20: Established as Territorial Prelature of Marawi / Maravien(sis) (Latin) (from Territorial Prelature of Iligan and became suffragan of Cagayan de Oro)
1983.01.24: Became suffragan of Ozamiz

Contact Info

Address: Bishop’s House, Saint Mary’s Church Compound, Bato Ali St., Moncado Colony, 9700 Marawi City, Philippines

Phone: (0910)577.69.86

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2001.10.22 – ...):

Bishop Edwin Angot de la Peña, M.S.P. (70)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Marawi (Roman Rite)

Bishop Edwin Angot de la Peña, M.S.P. (70)
(2001.10.22 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Marawi (Philippines)

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life

Born:	1954.04.05 (San Juan, Siquijor, Philippines)
Ordained Priest:	1981.04.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.12.27

Priest of Palo (Philippines) (1981.04.22 – 2001.10.22)

Bishop-Prelate of Marawi (Philippines) (2001.10.22 – ...)

Bishop Bienvenido Solon Tudtud
(1977.04.25 – 1987.06.26)

Born:	1931.03.22 (Philippines)
Ordained Priest:	1959.02.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.03.24
Died:	1987.06.26 († 56)

Auxiliary Bishop of Dumaguete (Philippines) (1968.02.05 – 1971.02.17)

Titular Bishop of Thimida (1968.02.05 – 1987.06.26)

Bishop-Prelate of Iligan (Philippines) (1971.02.17 – 1977.04.25)

Bishop-Prelate of Marawi (Philippines) (1977.04.25 – 1987.06.26)

Special Churches

Former Cathedral (now ruined): Cathedral of Santa Maria Auxiliadora, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Shrines in the Ordinary Jubilee 2025

Churches by City (6)

Iligan (↑), Malaybalay (→), Cotabato (↓)

Statistics (2016.12.31)

Area: 4,567 km²

Population: 38,800 Catholics (3.7% of 1,039,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 7 parishes

Personnel: 8 priests (3 diocesan, 5 religious), 10 religious (5 brothers, 5 sisters), 1 seminarian