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Suffragan diocese Catarman, Philippines

Diocese of Catarman

Catarmanien(sis)

The Diocese of Catarman covers Northern Samar in the Eastern Visayas and was erected in 1975. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Palo, with Bishop Nolly Camingue Buco installed in January 2025.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation, in Catarman, Philippines.

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Established
1975
Catholics
625,384
Priests
51
Territory
3,498 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Nolly Buco

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation stands in Catarman, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

The Diocese of Catarman (Latin: Dioecesis Catarmaniensis), a Latin Church jurisdiction in the Philippines, was erected in 1974 as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Cebu. When Palo was elevated in 1982, Catarman passed to the new archdiocese as one of its suffragans. Its boundaries have remained unchanged since the diocese was founded.