Roman Catholic Diocese of Tagbilaran


The Diocese of Tagbilaran is one of the 72 ecclesiastical territories called dioceses of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It is one of 2 dioceses in the province of Bohol and is part of the ecclesiastical province of the Cebu. The Diocese of Tagbilaran was established on November 8, 1941.
Most Rev. Alberto S. Uy, born on October 18, 1966, was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran by Pope Francis on October 13, 2016. He was ordained as bishop at the Blessed Trinity Cathedral in Talibon town, seat of the Diocese of Talibon on January 5, 2017, and was installed as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran on January 6, 2017 at Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. He succeeded bishop Most Rev. Leonardo Y. Medroso, D.D., who has retired.

History

The Diocese of Tagbilaran was created on November 8, 1941 and made a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cebu by the apostolic constitution In sublimi Petri cathedra. But due to the complications caused by World War II, its first bishop, Julio Rosales, a priest of the Diocese of Palo took possession of the diocese after his episcopal consecration 5 years after Tagbilaran's erection. On January 9, 1986, the diocese lost half of its territory and Pope Saint John Paul II created the Diocese of Talibon with seat in Talibon, a major town on the northern coast of the island. The Diocese of Talibon absorbed half of the civil province of Bohol., Bohol

Bishops of Tagbilaran