Prelature of Batanes

Address - Palacio Nu Obispo 1 Lizardo St., Kayhuvokan, Basco, 3900 Batanes
Contact Number - 0917-5780198
Email - chancerybatanes@gmail.com
Website - no record available

Diocese Name - Prelature of Batanes
Territory - Batanes
Cathedral - Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral - Batanes
Bishop - Most Rev. Danilo Bangayan Ulep, D.D.
Former Bishops - Most Rev. Camilo Diaz Gregorio D.D., Paala Jose Salazar, O.P. D.D.
Date Established - November 30, 1950
Feast Day - December 8
Patron Saint - Mary, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Number of Parishes - 7

DIOCESAN LOGO (COAT OF ARMS)
(photo from wikipedia.org)

Silver Crescent - symbolizes the Immaculate Conception, the titular of the principal church in the prelature. 

The North Star together with the constellation of the Ursa major - denotes that the prelature covers the northern-most part of the Philippines. 

Cattle - the most important export product of Batanes and Babuyan Islands hence the bull on pasture. 

The agitated sea - symbolizes the dangerous waters between these islands. (source - wikipedia.org)

HISTORY
  • November 30, 1950 - erected as Territorial Prelature of Batanes Islands and Babuyan, territory split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Manila. 
  • June 29, 1951 - became part of the ecclesiastical province of Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia. 
  • September 29, 1974 - became suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao. 
  • February 6, 2002 - renamed as Territorial Prelature of Batanes (source - wikipedia.org)