Diocese of San Jose de Antique
Sancti Iosephi de Antiquonia
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Jose de Antique, Philippines
The Diocese of San Jose de Antique covers the province of Antique. Established as a territorial prelature in 1962 and elevated to a diocese in 1982, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jaro.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 March 1962
- Latin
- Sancti Iosephi de Antiquonia
- Patron
- St. Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002907
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 493,600
- Population
- 696,200
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 70.9%
- Priests
- 53
- Catholics per priest
- 9,313
- Extent
- 2,552 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 193
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
- Marvyn Maceda
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
St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral stands in San Jose de Antique, 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 Jaro
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Jaro.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BacolodBacolod
- Archdiocese of JaroJaro
- Diocese of KabankalanKabankalan
- Diocese of San CarlosSan Carlos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The entire province of Antique in the Philippines falls under the Diocese of San Jose de Antique (Lat: Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi de Antiquonia), a Roman Rite jurisdiction of the Latin Church. Its cathedral stands in the municipality of San Jose de Buenavista, Antique.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Bantayan, San Jose de Buenavista, 5700 Antique, Philippines
- Telephone
- [036]540-8116; fax 540-9667
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.