Cebu Auxiliary Bishop Midyphil Billones | Photo from the Archdiocese of Cebu
MANILA – The Archdiocese of Jaro in Iloilo will formally install its 14th archbishop, Midyphill Billones, on April 2 during a Mass at Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral.
Billones, who has served as auxiliary bishop of Cebu since 2019, will succeed Archbishop Jose Lazo, who retired at 76.
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Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Lazo on Feb. 2 and appointed Billones as successor.
A day before Billiones’ installation, the archdiocese will also celebrate Lazo’s 50th anniversary of priestly ordination with a Mass at the cathedral.
Ordained as a priest for the Diocese of San Jose de Antique in 1975, Lazo became bishop of Kalibo in 2003 before transferring to Jaro in 2018. (PNA)