Archdiocese of Lipa
Lipen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Lipa, Philippines
The Archdiocese of Lipa is a Latin Church metropolitan see comprising the civil province of Batangas. Created as a diocese in 1910 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1972, its seat is the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Sebastian.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 April 1910
- Latin
- Lipen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph the Patriarch
- Annuario code
- 001002018
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,041,821
- Population
- 3,122,229
- Catholic share
- 97.4%
- Priests
- 123
- Catholics per priest
- 24,730
- Extent
- 3,165 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 961
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
- Archbishop
- Gilbert Garcera
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
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Sebastian stands in Lipa, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BoacBoac
- Diocese of CalapanCalapan
- Diocese of GumacaGumaca
- Diocese of InfantaInfanta
- Diocese of LucenaLucena
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
First created on April 10, 1910 out of the Archdiocese of Manila, the see of Lipa was raised to its present rank on June 20, 1972. Today the Archdiocese of Lipa (Latin: Archidioecesis Lipensis; Filipino: Arsidiyosesis ng Lipa; Spanish: Arquidiócesis de Lipa) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines whose territory is the civil province of Batangas, with the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Sebastian in Lipa, Batangas as its cathedral.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archdiocesan Chancery, Cathedral site, C.M. Recto St., 4217 Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines
- Telephone
- [043]756.2572
- [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].