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MANILA – The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) reelected Archbishop Romulo Valles<\/strong> of Davao as its president.<\/p>\n The vote gives Archbishop Valle, 67, his second and last term to lead the conference, during their plenary assembly in Manila on Saturday, July 6. His reelection would also make him more visible face of the church as it gears for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines in 2021.<\/p>\n Archbishop Valles was first elected CBCP head in July 2017, succeeding Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0The CBCP also reelected Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan as Vice President, Archbishop John Du as Treasurer and Fr. Marvin Mejia as Secretary General.<\/p>\n About 83 bishops, 73 of them are active and five are retired, attended the ongoing\u00a0\u00a0assembly at the Pope Pius xII Catholic Center in Manila.<\/p>\n The CBCP is currently composed of 134 members\u2014 83 of them are active, 3 are administrators, and 45 are retired from 86 ecclesiastical jurisdictions.<\/p>\n Pope Francis has assured his support to the CBCP members as they began their plenary assembly to discuss matters that affect the Church and the country.<\/p>\n He also wished their plenary assembly \u201cbear fruit for the benefit of all the faithful in an environment of living communion\u201d.<\/p>\n They will stay in office from Dec. 1, 2019 to November 30, 2021. CBCP officials have a two-year tenure in office, or a total of four to include the second term.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other elected and re-elected heads of the CBCP Commissions, Committees and Offices were the following:<\/p>\n \u2022 Episcopal Committee on Basic Ecclesial Communities \u2013 Bishop Jose A. Cabantan \r\n<\/p>\r[\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_post_nav prev_text=”PREVIOUS ARTICLE” next_text=”NEXT ARTICLE” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ background_color=”rgba(12,113,195,0.55)”] \r\n<\/p>\r[\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bp. Valles of Davao is still the CBCP President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aranzazu-news","category-cbcp-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-9W9","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture2.jpg?fit=3400%2C2267&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38211,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions\/38211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Biblical Apostolate \u2013 Bishop Sofronio A. Bancud, SSS
\u2022 Episcopal Office on Bioethics \u2013 Bishop Ricardo L. Baccay
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Canon Law \u2013 Bishop Jacinto A. Jose
\u2022 Episcopal Com. on Catechesis and Catholic Education \u2013 Bishop Roberto C. Mallari
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Clergy \u2013 Bishop Buenaventura M. Famadico
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Cultural Heritage of the Church \u2013 Bishop Julito B. Cortes
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Culture \u2013 Bishop Jose S. Bantolo
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Doctrine of the Faith \u2013 Bishop Jose R. Rojas
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Ecumenical Affairs \u2013 Bishop Angelito R. Lampon, OMI
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Family and Life \u2013 Bishop Gilbert A. Garcera
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Health Care \u2013 Bishop Rex C. Ramirez
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Indigenous Peoples \u2013 Bishop Valentin C. Dimoc
\u2022 Permanent Committee on International Eucharistic Congresses \u2014 Archbishop Jose S. Palma
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Inter-religious Dialogue \u2013 Bishop Edwin A. dela Pe\u00f1a, MSP
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on the Laity \u2013 Bishop Broderick S. Pabillo
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Liturgy \u2013 Bishop Victor B. Bendico
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People \u2013 Bishop Narciso V. Abellana, MSC
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Mission \u2013 Bishop Socrates C. Mesiona, MSP
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Mutual Relations \u2013 Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, SJ
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Pontificio Collegio Filippino \u2013 Bishop Ruperto C. Santos
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care \u2013 Bishop Joel Z. Baylon
\u2022 Permanent Committee on Public Affairs \u2013 Bishop Reynaldo G. Evangelista
\u2022 Episcopal Com. on Social Action, Justice and Peace \u2013 Bishop Jose Colin M. Bagaforo
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Social Communications \u2013 Bishop Marcelino Antonio M. Maralit, Jr.
\u2022 Episcopal Commission on Vocations \u2013 Bishop David William V. Antonio
\u2022 Episcopal Office on Women \u2013 Bishop Crispin B. Varquez
\u2022 Episcopal Office on Youth \u2013 Bishop Rex Andrew C. Alarcon
\u2022 National Appellate Matrimonial Tribunal \u2013 Bishop Antonio R. Tobias<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.20.1″]