Florentino Galang Lavarias is a
Filipino
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bishop
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of the
Catholic church
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. He is the fourth and current archbishop of
San Fernando
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People
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. He succeeded
Paciano Aniceto
Paciano Basilio Aniceto, (born March 9, 1937) is a Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Fernando. He was the third prelate to head the Archdiocese, which is located in San Fernando City, Pampanga, Philippines.
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as the Archbishop of San Fernando. He had previously served as the fourth
Bishop of Iba.
Biography
Lavarias was born on March 14, 1957, in Santa Ines,
Mabalacat
Mabalacat, officially the City of Mabalacat ( pam, Lakanbalen ning Mabalacat; fil, Lungsod ng Mabalacat), is a 3rd class component city in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 293,244 people ...
. He graduated in college at the
Holy Angel University
Holy Angel University is a private Catholic research university in Angeles City, Philippines. Founded in June 1933 by Don Juan Nepomuceno and Fr. Pedro Paulo Santos, who was later named as the Archbishop of Cáceres, is considered the first ...
in 1978 before entering the
San Carlos Seminary
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. He was
ordained
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a priest on September 26, 1985, at the Our Lady of Grace Parish. He served various
parish
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es under the Archdiocese of San Fernando. He was appointed
Bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Iba
The Diocese of Iba (Lat: ''Dioecesis Ibanae'') is a Roman Rite diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
The diocese began on 12 June 1955 as a territorial prelature from territory in the dioceses of San Fernando ...
. He was consecrated on August 12, 2004, at the
Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando. His consecrator was then the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines,
Antonio Franco while his co-consecrators are
Paciano Aniceto
Paciano Basilio Aniceto, (born March 9, 1937) is a Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Fernando. He was the third prelate to head the Archdiocese, which is located in San Fernando City, Pampanga, Philippines.
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and
Gaudencio Rosales
Gaudencio Borbón Rosales (born August 10, 1932) is a Roman Catholic Cardinal who was Archbishop of Manila, succeeding Jaime Sin in 2003, and succeeded by Luis Antonio Tagle in 2011. Being the Metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of ...
.
On July 25, 2014,
Pope Francis
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named him as Archbishop of San Fernando (De Pampanga), succeeding Aniceto, who resigned on reaching the age limit.
References
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines
Living people
Kapampangan people
People from Mabalacat
1957 births
Roman Catholic archbishops of San Fernando
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