Diocese of Calbayog
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Diocese of Calbayog Dioecesis Calbayoganus Diyosesis han Calbayog |
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| Location | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Territory | Western part of Samar |
| Ecclesiastical province | Palo |
| Metropolitan | Palo |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 5,069 km2 (1,957 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2006) 702,000 668,000 (95.2%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul |
| Patron saint |
Saint Peter St Paul |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Isabelo C. Abarquez |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | John F. Du |
| Vicar General | Niceas Abejuela |
| Emeritus Bishops | Ricardo P. Tancinco (1974-1979) |
| Website | |
| Website of the Diocese | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Calbayog is an ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church named after its episcopal see, Calbayog City, a city on the western side of the province of Samar in the Philippines.
Samar and Leyte, two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines, which include the islands of Balicuatro, Batac, Biliran, Capul, Daram, Homonhon, Leyte, Manicani, Panaon, Samar and several smaller islands, make up the diocese of Calbayog, a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Palo. The diocesan see Calbayog has a cathedral dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul.
The Diocese of Calbayog is the local church comprising the civil territorial jurisdiction of western side of Samar Island. The island, the third largest in the Philippines, is composed of three provinces: Northern Samar with Catarman as capital, Eastern Samar with Borongan as capital and the Samar Province (in the West) with Catbalogan as the capital. The City of Calbayog is where the Cathedral of the diocese is located since its ecclesiastical foundation on April 10, 1910 by Pope Pius X. The new Diocese was comprised then of the whole Samar and Leyte islands, separate from the Archdiocese of Cebu. Subsequently, Palo was ceded from Calbayog as a separate diocese in 1937, Borongan in 1965 and Catarman in 1975. The historical vicissitudes of the Diocese of Calbayog cannot be fully appreciated apart from the history of the early evangelical labors of the first missionaries who came to the island of Samar.The first Jesuit missionaries reached Leyte and Samar in 1595, the islands subsequently forming part of the Diocese of Cebu until erected into a separate diocese on 10 April 1910. The first bishop was Pablo Singzon de la Anunciacion.
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