US EditionFilipino Bishops Elect New Head as Cardinal David Wraps up Term
ANDA, BOHOL, JUL 5 – Archbishop Gilbert Garcera will lead the CBCP for two years, overseeing 126 bishops and addressing key ecclesial and sociopolitical issues, starting December 1, 2025.
- On Saturday, CBCP elected Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa as its president during the first day of the 130th plenary assembly in Anda, Bohol.
- The CBCP elected Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa on Saturday, departing from tradition by not choosing the outgoing vice president, as he will succeed Cardinal David, whose term ends in November.
- Garcera and Tonel, elected CBCP president and vice president, will coordinate 126 bishops, including 87 active ones, on church and sociopolitical issues starting December 1, 2025.
- Garcera and Tonel will assume their CBCP leadership posts on December 1, 2025, each serving two-year terms to guide the church through ongoing national and sociopolitical challenges.
- Beyond the assembly, the new CBCP leadership is expected to address national crises like the Marcos–Duterte rift and guide the church ahead of the 2028 presidential election.
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Filipino bishops elect new head as Cardinal David wraps up term
MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) elected its new president on Saturday, as the politically outspoken Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David wraps up his second and final two-year term as head of the bishops’ conference. Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa, an archdiocese about 50 miles south of Manila, is set to lead the CBCP from December 1, 2025, to November 30, 2027, a two-year term that can be renewed on…
The Archbishop of Lipa elected by the current Assembly in Bohol. It happened to Card. David who concluded the second term. Compared with how to continue in the Philippines the path of the Synod. Honorable to Noemi Saludo, a lay woman who contributed to the restoration of a hundred churches.
CBCP elects Archbishop Gilbert Garcera as new president
MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday elected Lipa Archbishop Gilbert Garcera as its next president. In a statement, the CBCP said Gacera, 66, will assume his post on December 1, 2025. He will succeed Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan, who will complete his second and final term […]...Keep on reading: CBCP elects Archbishop Gilbert Garcera as new president
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