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Father Romeo Convocar of Janiuay, Iloilo, is the brand new bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in Saipan, the place 41% of the inhabitants is Filipino
MANILA, Philippines – Pope Francis named Father Romeo Duetao Convocar, a priest from Iloilo within the Philippines, as the brand new bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa within the Northern Mariana Islands.
The appointment of Convocar as bishop of Chalan Kanoa was introduced by the Vatican at midday (Rome time) or 7 pm (Manila time) on Monday, November 25.
In Saipan, it was former Manila archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle who made the announcement in the course of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa’s fortieth anniversary. Tagle, the best rating Filipino within the Catholic Church, is now pro-prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization.
“You may have a brand new bishop!” Tagle stated as churchgoers cheered and clapped. The time of the Vatican announcement was round 9 pm in Saipan.
After main a prayer for the brand new bishop, Tagle stated: “This morning, after I stated life begins at 40, I didn’t know that tonight, there can be a brand new starting. We now have solely simply begun. Congratulations to the diocese, congratulations!”
The Diocese of Chalan Kanoa covers your entire Northern Mariana Islands, a United States territory within the western Pacific Ocean.
Ninety % of its inhabitants may be discovered on the island of Saipan, the place Filipinos are a dominant ethnic group. Greater than 19,000 Filipinos comprise 41% of Saipan’s folks.
Former army chaplain
The brand new bishop of Saipan was born in Janiuay, Iloilo, on April 13, 1970.
He attended highschool and studied philosophy at Saint Joseph Seminary in Dumaguete Metropolis, and accomplished his theological research at Saint Joseph Regional Seminary in Jaro, Iloilo Metropolis.
Ordained to the Catholic priesthood on September 17, 1996, he was first a priest of the Navy Ordinariate of the Philippines, which serves women and men in uniform resembling these within the army and the police.
He was army chaplain of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with the rank of captain. He as soon as served on the AFP Central Command, the Cavite Naval Base, and the army base at Fort Bonifacio.
He later moved to the Archdiocese of Agaña in Guam, the place he has served in numerous capacities since 2012. He was as soon as the vicar basic or right-hand man of then-archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes in Agaña. He later turned the archdiocese’s apostolic administrator or caretaker when Byrnes resigned in 2023.
Byrnes was finally succeeded by a Filipino, Ryan Pagente Jimenez of Dumaguete, as archbishop of Agaña.
When Jimenez turned archbishop of Agaña, Convocar was named apostolic administrator of Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, which Jimenez used to guide.
Convocar is among the many rising variety of Filipinos appointed as Catholic bishops in several elements of the globe, as Catholicism’s heart of gravity shifts from Europe to the worldwide south. Within the meantime, Filipino migrants have served as missionaries to the farthest locations of the globe, with the Pope himself difficult them to “proceed to be smugglers of the religion.” – Rappler.com
