Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen–Dagupan

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Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan Archidioecesis Lingayensis-Dagupanensis Arkidiosis na Lingayen-Dagupan Arkidiocesis ti Lingayen-Dagupan Arquidiócesis de Lingayén-Dagupán
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Archdiocesan coat of arms
Location
Country	Philippines
Territory	Central Pangasinan (Basista, Bautista, Bayambang, Binmaley, Calasiao, Dagupan, Laoac, Lingayen, Malasiqui, Manaoag, Mangaldan, Mapandan, San Carlos, San Fabian, San Jacinto, Santa Barbara, Urbiztondo
Ecclesiastical province	Lingayen-Dagupan
Statistics
Area	1,565 km2 (604 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2004) 1,215,000 1,002,000 (82.5%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	19 May 1928
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Co-cathedral	Co-Cathedral and Parish of the Epiphany of Our Lord
Patron saint	St. John the Evangelist
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Socrates Buenaventura Villegas
Auxiliary Bishops	Fidelis Bautista Layog
Map
Jurisdiction of the metropolitan see within the Philippines.
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Dagupan City.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen–Dagupan is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Province of Pangasinan, Philippines. Its cathedral is the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Dagupan City with a co-cathedral, the Epiphany of Our Lord Parish Church, in the neighboring municipality of Lingayen.

History[]

The Diocese of Lingayen was created in 1928 and renamed Lingayen-Dagupan in 1954. It became an archdiocese in 1963.^[1]

Coat of Arms[]

The nimbed silver eagle is the symbol of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, the titular of the cathedral at Dagupan. The three gold Oriental crowns represent the Three Wise Kings, the titular of the co-cathedral at Lingayen. The red wavy pile represents the Lingayen Gulf. The green field represents the "rice-bowl" of the Philippines, the whole of Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija. The three heraldic roses represent our Lady whose shrine in Manaoag is the jewel of the archdiocese.^[2]

Timeline of bishops[]

Ordinaries[]

Auxiliary Bishops[]

Bishops[]

Ordinaries[]

No.	Picture	Name	From	Until	Coat of arms
1		Cesar Ma. Guerrero	22 February 1929	16 December 1937
2		Mariano Madriaga	17 March 1938	7 February 1973
3		Federico G. Limon, SVD	7 February 1973	15 July 1991
4		Oscar V. Cruz	15 July 1991	8 September 2009
5		Socrates B. Villegas	4 November 2009	present

Auxiliary Bishops[]

No.	Picture	Name	From	Until	Coat of arms
1		Francisco Raval Cruces	2 April 1968	4 March 1970 (appointed Bishop of Ilagan)
2		Jesus Aputen Cabrera	5 May 1980	22 April 1985 (appointed Bishop of Alaminos)
3		Renato Pine Mayugba	18 October 2005	12 October 2012 (appointed Bishop of Laoag)
4		Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao	31 May 2016	24 May 2018 (appointed Bishop of Bayombong)
5		Fidelis Bautista Layog	18 March 2019	present

Affiliated Bishops[]

• , appointed Bishop of Tarlac in 1963
• , appointed Bishop of Tarlac in 2016

Suffragan dioceses[]

The archdiocese has five suffragan dioceses:

• Diocese of Alaminos
• Diocese of Cabanatuan
• Diocese of San Fernando de La Union
• Diocese of San Jose de Nueva Ecija
• Diocese of Urdaneta

See also[]

• Roman Catholicism in the Philippines
• List of Catholic dioceses in the Philippines

References[]

External links[]

• Official website