The Diocese of Alaminos Pangasinan has its new Bishop

After four years, the Diocese of Alaminos has its new bishop in the person of His Excellency Most Reverend Napoleon B. Sipalay, Jr., O.P., D.D. Today, on the feast of our patron, Saint Joseph, Bishop Sipalay is formally installed as the Fourth Bishop of our diocese.

Napoleon B. Sipalay, OP, DD, is ordained yesterday to the episcopate from the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Most Rev. Charles John Brown, D. The ordination was attended by the the Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal F. Advincula, OP, DD. at Manaog Basilica.

Rev. Father Sipalay is the fist Dominican bishop in 28 years.- following the late Archbishop Emeritus Leonardo Legaspi of Caceres and the late Auxiliary Bishop Jose Salazar of Lipa. He fills a four-year vacancy in the Diocese of Alaminos, Pangasinan.

A 53-year-old native of Davao, Rev. Sipalay is the outgoing vice-rector of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Central Seminary. He succeeded Ricardo Baccay, who was named archbishop of Tuguegarao in 2019.

The ordination was attended by our chaplain Fr. Francis Ofrancia who represented the Diocese of Limburg, Germany.

In continuation and support to the partnership of the Diocese of Limburg and the Diocese of Alaminos, we, – the Filipino Catholic Community joins to the joy of the more than half million Catholics in Western Pangasinan and congratulate the Most Rev. Napoleon B. Sipalay, OP, DD as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Alaminos.