Archdiocese of Caceres

Address - Elias Angeles, Bagumbayan Sur, Naga, 4400 Camarines Sur

Contact Number - (054) 871-3585

Email - cccom1naga@gmail.com

Facebook - www.fb.com/ArchdioceseOfCaceres

Website - www.archdioceseofcaceres.org

QUICK FACTS

Diocese Name - Archdiocese of Caceres

Territory - 3rd, 4th, and 5th congressional districts of Camarines Sur, Naga City, Iriga City and the Municipality of Gainza.

Cathedral - Metropolitan Cathedral and Parish of Saint John the Evangelist

Bishop - Most Rev. Rolando Octavus J. Tria Tirona, O.C.D., D.D.,

Former Bishops - Bishop Pedro Paulo Songco Santos D.D., Bishop Teopisto Valderrama Alberto D.D., Bishop Leonardo Zamora Legaspi, O.P. D.D.

Date Established - August 14, 1595 as Diocese and elevated to Archdiocese on June 29, 1951.

Feast Day - no record available

Patron Saint - St. Peter Baptist

No. of Parishes - 93

LIST OF PARISHES

ARCHDIOCESAN LOGO (COAT OF ARMS)

(photo from wikipedia.org)

A pallium divides the shield into three fields. On chief azure is a rose drawn in natural form. Both the rose and the blue background represent Our Lady of Peñafrancia, the patroness of the Bicol Region. On dexter is an eagle argent nimbed holding an open book proper from which issues a thunderbolt gules. A "nimbed" eagle is one with a halo or aureole. This silver eagle against the gold background represents St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, the titular of the Cathedral at Naga. The open book represents the Gospel. The thunderbolt alludes to the nickname “Boanerges” given by our Lord to St. John and his brother James, meaning sons of thunder. On sinister against a red background are the three mountains, representing Mounts Mayon, Isarog, and Bulusan. Above the mountains are the insignia of the Franciscan Order, and below the mountains is a green palm branch drawn diagonally with the sinisterwise. This group of sybols alludes to the Franciscan St. Peter Baptist who was martyred in Japan among other Japanese martyrs on 6 February 1597, who was erroneously considered bishop-elect for the see of Nueva Caceres at the time of his martyrdom, and hence is venerated as the secondary patron saint of the cathedral

The Coat of Arms was enhanced in 2021, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Elevation of the Diocese of Caceres to an Archdiocese. (source - www.archdioceseofcaceres.org/archdiocesan-seal)

HISTORY

The Archdiocese of Cáceres is the Metropolitan See that it comprises the Bicol region with the Dioceses of Legazpi, Sorsogon, Virac, Masbate, Daet and Libmanan as its suffragan Dioceses. It directly supervises 93 Parishes with a total Catholic population of 1,526,975 as of 2017. Founded in 1595 as a diocese (Nueva Caceres), the Archdiocese of Caceres is one of the first dioceses in the Philippines together with Cebu, Nueva Segovia and Manila, and once had jurisdiction that stretched from Samar in the south and Isabela Province in the north. The seat of the archdiocese is currently located in Naga City, also known as the Queen City of Bicol. The archdiocese is also home to the Our Lady of Peñafrancia, the Patroness of Bicol. Created diocese: August 14, 1595. Elevated to archdiocese: June 29, 1951. (source - www.archdioceseofcaceres.org/the-archdioces)

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