Philippines bishops conference - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:35:10 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Philippines bishops conference - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Philippines has new bishops' conference leader https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/07/20/philippines-bishops-conference/ Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:51:29 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=96835 The Philippines bishops' conference has elected a new president: Archbishop Romulo Valles. Since 2012 Archbishop Valles, 66, has headed the Archdiocese of Davao, on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. Davao is the largest city in the region. About 80 per cent - or 80 million people - in the Philippines are Catholic. Read more

Philippines has new bishops' conference leader... Read more]]> The Philippines bishops' conference has elected a new president: Archbishop Romulo Valles.

Since 2012 Archbishop Valles, 66, has headed the Archdiocese of Davao, on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. Davao is the largest city in the region.

About 80 per cent - or 80 million people - in the Philippines are Catholic. Read more

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