Leopoldo C. Jaucian, SVD, D.D. is a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Philippines and the Current Bishop of Bangued in Abra (

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) and yet he was the Former Chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Youth.

Biography

Born on July 27, 1960 in

Santa, Ilocos Sur Santa, officially the Municipality of Santa ( ilo, Ili ti Santa; fil, Bayan ng Santa), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 14,992 people. Due to Santa's nat ...

(Philippines). The first child of Ernesto Ballesteros Jaucian, Sr. and Veronica Bello Corpuz has three brothers and three sisters. Having found themselves transferring from one place to another due to the work of his father, Monsignor Jaucian's family eventually settled in

Urdaneta City Urdaneta, officially the City of Urdaneta ( pag, Siyudad na Urdaneta; ilo, Siyudad ti Urdaneta; fil, Lungsod ng Urdaneta), is a 2nd class component city in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populat ...

Pangasinan Pangasinan, officially the Province of Pangasinan ( pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Pangasinan, ; ilo, Probinsia ti Pangasinan; tl, Lalawigan ng Pangasinan), is a coastal province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region of Luzon. Its capit ...

, where he came to know the Divine Word Society (SVD), which has a Secondary School Institution in this city - the Divine Word Academy of Urdaneta (now Divine Word College) Monsignor Jaucian took his high school studies in this academy, after which, in 1976, he went to work as a sacristan at the SVD's

Christ the King Seminary The Christ the King Seminary is a Roman Catholic seminary in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town, Karachi, Pakistan; located in adjacent to the Portiuncula Friary. In its early years most of the faculty were provided by the Franciscans. It has been described ...

, in

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. It was while having this work that he discovered his vocation to the priesthood, and expressed his intention to join the Divine Word Society. As a full-fledged SVD seminarian and

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he studied philosophy at the Christ the King Seminary from 1977 to 1979. Later, he underwent the Order's

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program in Tagaytay (1979 to 1981). In 1982, after his novitiate, he was chosen to study Chinese language and culture. Thus, he was sent to

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

for the Oversea's Training Program, from 1982 to 1984. it was in Taipei where he finished his theological formation in 1987, at the

Fu Jen Catholic University Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...

Ministry as a Priest

Monsignor Jaucian was ordained to the priesthood, on 12 March 1988, at the Divine Word College Chapel in

, by Bishop Miguel Cinches, who is also a member of the Divine Word Society. After Ordination, the new priest went back to Taiwan, where he worked as Assistant Pastor at the St. Joseph the Worker Parish in

Chiayi Chiayi (, Taigi POJ: ''Ka-gī''; ), officially known as Chiayi City, is a city located in the plains of southwestern Taiwan. Formerly called ''Kagee'' during the late Qing dynasty and ''Kagi'' during the Japanese era (), its historical name i ...

for one year. He also served as a Campus Minister at the

for three years (1989-1992). After his stint in Taiwan, Monsignor Jaucian returned to the Philippines in 1992. In

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, he studied Guidance and Counselling at the

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. He was also assisting at the St. Jude Catholic Parish and Archdiocesan Shrine near the

Malacañang Palace Malacañang Palace ( fil, Palasyo ng Malakanyang, ; es, Palacio de Malacañán), officially known as Malacañan Palace, is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the Philippines. It is located in the Manila distric ...

. In 1995, he finished his master's degree at the said University. From 1995 to 2000, he was assigned at the St. Jude Catholic School, with responsibilities varying from being Campus Minister, Assistant Principal and Assistant Director. In 2000, he was appointed parish priest of the

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. Concurrently, he was also given the responsibility as the Superior of the SVD Manila District, and as Vicar Forane of the Vicariate of San Jose de Trozo of the

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. In January 2005, he was elected as SVD's Provincial Superior for the Philippine Central Province.

Bishop of Bangued

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named Monsignor Leopoldo Jaucian as

Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

of the Diocese of Bangued, Abra, on 5 January 2007. He received his episcopal ordination, on 26 March of that year by His Eminence Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, D.D., together with Bishop Artemio Rillera and Archbishop Fernando Filoni,UCAN Directory.
/ref> and Installed on March 31, 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaucian, Leopoldo 1960 births Living people 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines People from Ilocos Sur People from Urdaneta, Pangasinan Fu Jen Catholic University alumni Fu Jen Catholic University faculty

Biography

Ministry as a Priest

Bishop of Bangued

See also

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