Archbishop of Lipa
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| Incumbent: Bishop-elect Gilbert Armea Garcera |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Province | Ecclesiastical Province of Lipa |
| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Lipa |
| Cathedral | Metropolitan Cathedral of San Sebastian |
| First incumbent | Joseph Petrelli |
| Formation | Bishopric in 1910 Archbishopric in 1972 |
| Website | Archbishop of Lipa |
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lipa is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa and the Metropolitan Bishop of the suffragan dioceses of Boac, Gumaca, Lucena and the Prelature of Infanta.
The most recent Archbishop was Ramon Arguelles. He was ordained bishop on Jan. 6, 1994. On May 14, 2004, he was appointed Archbishop of Lipa. Pope Francis accepted Arguelles' letter of resignation on February 2, 2017 and decided to name Bishop of Daet Gilbert Garcera as the eventual successor.
When the original Diocese of Lipa was created in April 10, 1910, the Bishop of Lipa had authority over a very vast region of a mostly homogenous Tagalog population. The Bishop used to oversee the Roman Catholics in the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, Quezon, Marinduque and Mindoro.
In 1936, the first territorial re-organisation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa was promulgated with the creation of the Apostolic Prelature of Calapan, thus separating the province of Mindoro to the Archdiocese. This was followed by the creation of the Diocese of Lucena and the Prelature of Infanta in 1950.
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