Diocese of Boac
Boacen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Boac, Philippines
The Diocese of Boac is a Latin Church diocese covering the island province of Marinduque, Philippines. Created on April 2, 1977, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lipa. Bishop Edwin Oracion Panergo was appointed on December 2, 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 April 1977
- Latin
- Boacen(sis)
- Patron
- Mahal na Birhen ng Biglang-Awa (principal); Immaculate Conception (secondary)
- Annuario code
- 001000915
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 256,611
- Population
- 291,438
- Catholic share
- 88.0%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 7,332
- Extent
- 959 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 268
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Edwin Oracion Panergo
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral-Parish of the Immaculate Conception stands in Boac, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Lipa
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lipa.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CalapanCalapan
- Diocese of GumacaGumaca
- Diocese of InfantaInfanta
- Archdiocese of LipaLipa
- Diocese of LucenaLucena
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Holding jurisdiction over the province of Marinduque, the Diocese of Boac (Lat: "Dioecesis Boacensis") is a Latin Catholic diocese in the Philippines. It was created a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lipa on 2 April 1977, when it was separated from the Mother Diocese of Lucena, and its territory measures 959.2 square kilometres (370.3 sq mi) in total.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Sacred Heart Pastoral Center, Mataas na Bayan, Boac, 4900 Marinduque, Philippines
- Telephone
- [042]332-1014
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].