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Metropolitan see Capiz, Philippines

Archdiocese of Capiz

Capicen(sis)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Capiz covers the entire province of Capiz on Panay island in the Western Visayas, with its see in Roxas City. Erected as a diocese in 1951 and raised to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1976, it has Kalibo and Romblon as suffragans and has been led by Archbishop Victor Bendico since 2023.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Cathedral, in Capiz, Philippines.

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Established
1951
Catholics
823,825
Priests
113
Territory
2,663 km²

Parishes and churches

32 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Victor Bendico

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The cathedral

Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Cathedral stands in Capiz, 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.

History

With its see in Roxas City, the Archdiocese of Capiz is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, taking in the whole province of Capiz on the island of Panay in the central Visayas. Its ecclesiastical province includes two suffragan sees: Kalibo, responsible for the province of Aklan, and Romblon, responsible for the province bearing that name. Victor Barnuevo Bendico, installed on May 3, 2023, is the current archbishop.