NEW JARO LEADER. The Archdiocese of Jaro welcomes Most Rev. Midyphil Billones as its new archbishop after his formal set up throughout the Excessive Mass with the ceremony of canonical possession on the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral on Wednesday (April 2, 2025). Billones was ordained as priest and bishop in 1995 and 2019, respectively, in the identical church. (Photograph courtesy of Arnold Almacen)
ILOILO CITY – The Archdiocese of Jaro welcomed its new archbishop after the formal set up of Most Rev. Midyphil Billones throughout the solemn Excessive Mass with the ceremony of canonical possession on the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral on Wednesday.
Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, for whom Billones beforehand served as Auxiliary Bishop, emphasised the sacred obligation entrusted to the brand new Jaro archbishop.
“He has positioned you right here not as a result of you’re a deserving son of Jaro, definitely essentially the most appropriate for the ministry, as we are saying taga-Jaro gid (really from Jaro). However just because the Lord has chosen you to be the vicar of His love particularly, to the final, the least, and the misplaced,” Palma stated.
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The celebration started with a solemn canonical procession from the Archbishop’s Residence to the Cathedral of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
Main the procession was Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Most Rev. Charles John Brown, alongside 47 bishops and archbishops from throughout the nation, joined by lots of of monks.
In his message, Billones conveyed his deep gratitude to those that helped him develop in his ministry, together with Palma and his predecessor, Archbishop-emeritus Jose Romeo Lazo.
“This set up is an exquisite flowering of your years of priestly ministry. And I solely hope, though imperfectly, I can prolong the legacy of your humble sandals and the blooming workers that walks to the aspect of the folks,” he stated.
He additionally thanked the monks in Jaro, who have been as soon as his mentors and now his fellow clergy.
“I’m totally conscious of my weaknesses. It’s simply that I do know yours, too. This is able to preserve us humble and extra compassionate to at least one one other as we burn vivid with the ecclesiological consciousness that it’s God’s mercy that urges us to be united in loving and serving the church,” he added.
Brown referred to as the celebration a “extremely important day” because it coincided with the feast of St. Pedro Calungsod, a Visayan saint.
Billones is the 14th shepherd of Jaro for the reason that diocese was based in Might 1865 and the seventh archbishop after it was elevated to the standing of an archdiocese within the Fifties, he stated.
“Because the Apostolic Nuncio, I ask you, I encourage you, cherish your archbishop, respect your archbishop, pray to your archbishop, and love your archbishop as a result of he’s God’s present to you as your episcopus, the one who watches over his lovely caravan of God,” Brown advised the Ilonggo trustworthy.
The Papal Nuncio additionally urged them to proceed to hope for Pope Francis, who not too long ago returned to the Vatican however has but to totally get better.
“He isn’t utterly recovered. He nonetheless wants your prayers. So please proceed to hope for the Holy Father at the moment,” the Papal Nuncio added.
Billones succeeded Lazo who retired after celebrating his fiftieth yr as a priest and serving Jaro as archbishop for seven years.
Born on July 4, 1969 in Panay, Capiz, Billones was ordained priest by then Archbishop Alberto Piamonte on the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral on Oct. 2, 1995, and as bishop by Lazo in the identical church on Aug. 27, 2019. (PNA)
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