Diocese of Naval
Navalien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Naval, Philippines
The Diocese of Naval is a Latin Church diocese in the Philippines, erected in 1988 from the Archdiocese of Palo. It covers the island of Biliran and four northwestern towns of Leyte, with its see at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Naval.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 November 1988
- Latin
- Navalien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary
- Annuario code
- 001002361
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 370,734
- Population
- 410,670
- Catholic share
- 90.3%
- Priests
- 28
- Catholics per priest
- 13,241
- Extent
- 1,005 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 369
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
- Rex Cullingham Ramirez
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
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral stands in Naval, 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 Palo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Palo.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BoronganBorongan
- Diocese of CalbayogCalbayog
- Diocese of CatarmanCatarman
- Archdiocese of PaloPalo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The whole island of Biliran, together with the four towns at the northwestern tip of Leyte Province, forms the territory of the Diocese of Naval (Latin: Dioecesis Navaliensis), a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church in the Philippines with its cathedral at Naval, Biliran in the Eastern Visayas. Erected in 1988 from territory of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palo, it remains a suffragan of that archdiocese. Filomeno Bactol served as the first appointed bishop (1988-2017).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Diocesan Pastoral Center, Burgos Street, Brgy. Padre Inocentes, 6560 Naval, Biliran Province, Philippines
- Telephone
- e fax [053]500-9032
- [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].