The first bishop was César María Guerrero, DD, a native of Manila he received his appointment from the Vatican on May 29, 1949, and was installed on September 8 of the same year. It was initially a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila. The diocese of San Fernando, Pampanga was created on December 11, 1948, through the Apostolic Constitution Probe Noscitur it comprised the provinces of Pampanga, Bataan, Zambales, parts of Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija.
3.4 Other Priests of the Archdiocese who became Bishops.3.1 Ordinary before the Elevation to a Metropolitan See.1.2 Pampanga: first and last Augustinian territory in Luzon.who resigned three months earlier on July 25, 2014. Lavarias, D.D., is the current archbishop of the archdiocese since October 27, 2014, succeeding Paciano B. The Virgin Mary, under the title Virgen de los Remedios, is the principal patroness.įlorentino G. The cathedral church and seat of the archdiocese is the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Fernando (Pampanga).
The archdiocese is also the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of the same name, which also include three dioceses of its surrounding provinces of Bataan ( Diocese of Balanga), Zambales ( Diocese of Iba), and Tarlac ( Diocese of Tarlac). The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando ( Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi Filipino: Arkidiyosesis ng San Fernando Spanish: Arquidiócesis de San Fernando Kapampangan: Arkidiosesis ning San Fernando) is the archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Pampanga, Philippines which has territorial jurisdiction over the whole province of Pampanga and Angeles City. Jurisdiction of the metropolitan see within the Philippines.