Diocese of San Pablo, Philippines

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: San Pablo / Sancti Pauli in Insulis Philippinis (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Manila

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Paul of Thebes (January 15)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1966.11.28: Established as Diocese of San Pablo / Sancti Pauli in Insulis Philippinis (Latin) (from Diocese of Lipa and became suffragan of Manila)

Tweets

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Apostolic Administrator (2023.09.21 – ...):

Bishop Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara (61)

Bishop of Pasig (Philippines)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (C.B.C.P.)

Ordinaries

Bishops of San Pablo (Roman Rite)

Bishop Mylo Hubert Claudio Vergara (61)
(Apostolic Administrator 2023.09.21 – ...)

Bishop Buenaventura Malayo Famadico (67)
(2013.01.25 – 2023.09.21)

Bishop emeritus of San Pablo (Philippines)

Maghari ka sa Amin

Born:	1956.07.13 (Banton, Romblon, Mimaropa, Philippines)
Ordained Priest:	1983.10.25
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.06.19

Priest of Calapan (Philippines) (1983.10.25 – 2002.04.06)

Titular Bishop of Urusi (2002.04.06 – 2003.06.11)

Auxiliary Bishop of Lipa (Philippines) (2002.04.06 – 2003.06.11)

Bishop of Gumaca (Philippines) (2003.06.11 – 2013.01.25)

Bishop of San Pablo (Philippines) (2013.01.25 – 2023.09.21)

Bishop Leo Murphy Drona, S.D.B. (82)
(2004.05.14 – 2013.01.25)

Bishop emeritus of San Pablo (Philippines)

Pro mundi vita

Born:	1941.10.18 (Pangil, Philippines)
Ordained Priest:	1967.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.07.25

Bishop of San Jose de Nueva Ecija (Philippines) (1987.06.10 – 2004.05.14)

Bishop of San Pablo (Philippines) (2004.05.14 – 2013.01.25)

Bishop Francisco Capiral San Diego
(1995.07.12 – 2003.06.28)

Servus Dei

Born:	1935.10.10 (Philippines)
Ordained Priest:	1963.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1983.08.10
Died:	2015.08.26 († 79)

Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Palawan (Philippines) (1983.06.06 – 1987.12.18)

Titular Bishop of Zica (1983.06.06 – 1995.07.12)

Vicar Apostolic of Palawan (Philippines) (1987.12.18 – 1995.07.12)

Bishop of San Pablo (Philippines) (1995.07.12 – 2003.06.28)

Bishop of Pasig (Philippines) (2003.06.28 – 2010.12.21)

Bishop Pedro Bantigue y Natividad
(1967.01.26 – 1995.07.12)

Dei sumus adjutores

Born:	1920.01.31 (Philippines)
Ordained Priest:	1945.05.31
Consecrated Bishop:	1961.07.25
Died:	2012.11.20 († 92)

Titular Bishop of Catula (1961.05.29 – 1967.01.26)

Auxiliary Bishop of Manila (Philippines) (1961.05.29 – 1967.01.26)

Bishop of San Pablo (Philippines) (1967.01.26 – 1995.07.12)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Paul the Hermit, San Pablo, Laguna, Calabarzon
National Shrine: National Shrine of St. Anthony of Padua, Pila, Laguna, Calabarzon
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (90)

Lipa (↙), Imus (↖), Parañaque (↖), Antipolo (↑), Infanta (↗), Lucena (→)

Statistics (2018.12.31)

Area: 1,918 km²

Population: 3,036,000 Catholics (81.0% of 3,748,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 89 parishes, 4 missions

Personnel: 241 priests (162 diocesan, 79 religious), 773 religious (419 brothers, 354 sisters), 78 seminarians