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Archdiocese of Ozamiz

Ozamisan(us)

The Archdiocese of Ozamiz is a Latin Church metropolitan see in northwestern Mindanao, originating as a territorial prelature in 1951 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1983. Its see is the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Ozamiz City.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
27 January 1951
Latin
Ozamisan(us)
Patron
Immaculate Conception
Annuario code
001002505

The see in figures

Catholics
470,485
Population
741,160
Catholic share
63.5%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
49
Catholics per priest
9,602
Extent
1,939 km²
Catholics per km²
243

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
Martin S. Jumoad
Born
11 November 1956
Birthplace
Kinasang-am

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 the Immaculate Conception stands in Ozamiz, 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 Ozamiz

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

In the province of Misamis Occidental, the Archdiocese of Ozamis serves as a metropolitan Latin Catholic archdiocese of the Philippines. Its cathedral is the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Ozamiz City, and Martin Jumoad is the present archbishop. A note on spelling: the archdiocese is officially Ozamis, while the city where it sits is spelled Ozamiz.

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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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].