The Daet Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, is a prominent Latin Rite

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located in

Daet Daet (), officially the Municipality of Daet ( bcl, Banwaan kan Daet; tl, Bayan ng Daet), is a 1st class municipality of the Philippines, municipality and capital of the Philippine Province, province of Camarines Norte, Philippines. According ...

Camarines Norte Camarines Norte ( bcl, Amihanan na Camarines; fil, Hilagang Camarines), officially the Province of Camarines Norte, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon. Its capital is Daet, Camarin ...

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. It was erected in 1984 after the

Diocese of Daet The Roman Catholic Diocese of Daet ( la, Daëtiensis) is a diocese located in the capital town of Daet in the province of Camarines Norte in the Philippines. The Diocese of Daet, with jurisdiction over the Province of Camarines Norte and suffra ...

was created by a papal bull on May 27, 1974. the rector is the Most Reverend Gilbert Armea Garcera.

History

The construction of the parish church took a long time of preparation. It started long before Camarines Norte became a

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. During the incumbency of Msgr. Antonino O. Reganit as parish priest of Daet, the cathedral compound was acquired from the Magana Family. Construction of a complex building was started, the center of which was the proposed main altar. Reganit died before completion. September 1, 1974 was the canonical erection day of the diocese, with the ordination and installation of the first bishop, Celestino R. Enverga. Enverga completed construction, with modifications, and launched other infrastructure projects: the bishop's residence with the annexed parish house, the cathedral, the Carillon Multi-purpose hall, the library, museum and printing house, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, the Kolbe's House (now the Holy Trinity Cathedral Rectory Office), the Bishop Enverga Hall, the concrete fencing of the compound with guard-house in the two gates, and the stand-by power house. The cathedral church was consecrated on September 1, 1984, on the first decade celebration of the diocese. It was dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity by Jose T. Sanchez, Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, with Wilfredo D. Manlapaz as preacher and Pablo Balon as rector. On November 2, 1995, a strong typhoon destroyed the cathedral's roof and a series of typhoons damaged the church again in the year 2005.

List of recent Rectors

*Rev. Fr. Luis M. Puno, Jr. (2006–2008) *Rev. Fr. Joselito M. Quiñones (2008–2009) *Most Rev.

Gilbert Garcera Gilbert Armea Garcera (born February 2, 1959) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lipa in the Philippines. He succeeds Archbishop Ramon Arguelles, who earlier filed his resignation prior to his mandatory retirement age in 20 ...

, D.D. (2009–2017) *Most Rev. Rex Andrew Alarcon, D.D. (2019-Present) * *

References

{{reflist Roman Catholic churches in Camarines Norte Roman Catholic cathedrals in the Philippines Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Daet