Diocese of Legazpi
Legazpien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Legazpi, Philippines
The Diocese of Legazpi is a Latin Church suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Caceres covering the province of Albay in the Bicol Region. Erected in 1951, it has been led by Bishop Joel Z. Baylon since 2009. The territorial population was about 1,505,170 at the end of 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 June 1951
- Latin
- Legazpien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Gregory the Great
- Annuario code
- 001001978
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,389,658
- Population
- 1,487,322
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 93.4%
- Priests
- 101
- Catholics per priest
- 13,759
- Extent
- 2,552 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 545
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
- Bishop
- Joel Z. Baylon
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
Cathedral of St. Gregory the Great, Legazpi stands in Legazpi, 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 Caceres
A suffragan of Caceres.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CaceresCaceres
- Diocese of DaetDaet
- Diocese of LibmananLibmanan
- Diocese of MasbateMasbate
- Diocese of SorsogonSorsogon
- Diocese of ViracVirac
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The entire province of Albay in the Philippines constitutes the Diocese of Legazpi (Latin: Dioecesis Legazpiensis), a Latin Church diocese erected in 1951 from territory of the Archdiocese of Cáceres, of which it remains a suffragan. A 1974 partition of the diocese produced the Diocese of Virac. The present Bishop of Legazpi is Most Rev. Joel Baylon, D.D., who previously served as Bishop of Masbate.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Chancery Office, Cathedral Compound, Albay District, 4500 Legazpi City, Philippines
- Telephone
- [052]742-1243
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.