Roman Catholic Diocese of Urdaneta

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Urdaneta (Latin: Dioecesis Urdanetensis) is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The diocese was established in 1985 from the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan.

Diocese of Urdaneta

Dioecesis Urdanetensis

Diosis na Urdaneta
Diocesis ti Urdaneta
Cathedral of Urdaneta
Location
CountryPhilippines
TerritoryEastern Pangasinan (Alcala, Asingan, Balungao, Binalonan, Natividad, Pozorrubio, Rosales, San Manuel, San Nicolas, San Quintin, Santa Maria, Santo Tomas, Sison, Tayug, Umingan, Urdaneta, Villasis)
Ecclesiastical provinceLingayen-Dagupan
MetropolitanLingayen-Dagupan
Statistics
Area1,616 km2 (624 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2010)
703,000
594,670 (84.6%)
Information
DenominationRoman Catholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established12 January 1985
CathedralCathedral-Parish of the Immaculate Conception
Patron saintImmaculate Conception
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopJacinto Agcaoili Jose
Metropolitan ArchbishopSocrates B. Villegas

Ordinaries
  • Pedro G. Magugat, DD: 22 Apr 1985 - 5 May 1990)
  • Jesús Castro Galang, DD: 7 Dec 1991 - 6 Sep 2004
  • Jacinto Agcaoili José, DD: 21 Sep 2005–present

Bishop/s from the Diocese of Urdaneta
  • Marlo Mendoza Peralta, DD, current Archbishop of Nueva Segovia and Bishop-Emeritus of the Diocese of Alaminos from 2007 to 2014. He was one of the clergies of the Diocese of Urdaneta for twenty years.

Educational Institutions
gollark: The computer science department at my school was established something like 3 years ago.
gollark: I figure that if I had a vast computing cluster to bend to my will, I could work out how to use it later.
gollark: There are raspberry pis sitting around in boxes idling when they *could* form a vast computing cluster to... I don't know, build random AUR packages?
gollark: I may be able to use this robotics thing as an excuse to harvest part of the school's endless ability to buy significant quantities of hardware nobody will ever actually use much.
gollark: (I don't really do much electronics, despite vaguely wanting to)

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