Diocese of Taytay
Taytayen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Taytay, Philippines
The Apostolic Vicariate of Taytay is a Latin Church missionary jurisdiction covering northern Palawan, established in 2002 and immediately subject to the Holy See rather than to a metropolitan. It has been led by Vicar Apostolic Broderick S. Pabillo since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 March 2002
- Latin
- Taytayen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph the Worker
- Annuario code
- 001000461
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 633,821
- Population
- 763,640
- Catholic share
- 83.0%
- Priests
- 47
- Catholics per priest
- 13,486
- Extent
- 6,413 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 99
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Broderick Soncuaco Pabillo
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
Saint Joseph the Worker Cathedral stands in Taytay, 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
On the island of Palawan in the Philippines, the Apostolic Vicariate of Taytay is a pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction of the Latin Church. Directly subject to the Holy See under the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, it belongs to no ecclesiastical province, though for apostolic cooperation it is customarily grouped with the Ecclesiastical Province of Manila alongside the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Princesa.
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.
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].