Rolando Octavus Joven Tria Tirona, O.C.D. (born July 22, 1946), is a

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of the

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in the

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. He is the Archbishop of Caceres in

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. He was appointed to succeed the retiring Archbishop

Leonardo Legaspi Leonardo Zamora Legaspi, O.P. (25 November 1935 – 8 August 2014) was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (1988–1991). He was appointed the first F ...

of Caceres.

Biography

Rolando Tirona was born on July 22, 1946 in Kawit, he finished his elementary and secondary education at Centro Escolar University in 1952 and 1958. He completed a degree in political science at San Beda College before he entered San Carlos Seminary in Makati to finish philosophy in 1968. He entered Carmel on August 15, 1964 and solemnly professed vows on February 10, 1968. He was ordained priest on April 21, 1974 in Rome. He was ordained as bishop on December 29, 1994 at the Manila Cathedral. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Manila from 1994 to 1996. He was appointed apostolic administrator of Malolos in January 1996 and served as Bishop the Diocese of Malolos from 1996 to 2003. He became the Bishop of Infanta in Quezon province for nine years (2003 – 2012).

Archbishop of Caceres

On September 8, 2012, Pope

Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign ...

elevated Tirona to Archbishop of Caceres, replacing the retiring

. The Archdiocese of Cáceres is a

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that comprises the Bicol region, while directly overseeing the third, fourth and fifth congressional districts of

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and is centered in

. The Archdiocese, having been founded in 1595 in the Royal City of

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(modern-day

), is considered one of the oldest in the Philippines with

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and

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, and once had jurisdiction that stretched from Samar in the south to Isabela Province in the north. The seat of the Archdiocese is in Pilgrim City of

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Archbishop Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, O.C.D.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tirona, Rolando Joven Tria 1946 births Living people People from Kawit, Cavite 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines San Beda University alumni People from Sampaloc, Manila Discalced Carmelite bishops Roman Catholic archbishops of Cáceres Filipino archbishops