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Pope’s 1st Pinoy appointee is bishop of Infanta
Pope Leo XIV has appointed his first Filipino bishop, Fr. Dave Dean Capucao, as the new bishop of the Prelature of Infanta.
Capucao, 59, will be the fourth prelate of Infanta, taking over from the retired Bishop Bernardino Cortez.
Cortez served the prelature from January 2015 and offered his resignation upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 in July 2024.
Born in Camarines Sur, the bishop-elect was ordained a priest for the Infanta prelature in 1994 and has served in various capacities, including as founding pastor of a village parish in Aurora province for six years.
He holds a master's degree in intercultural and interreligious theology from Radboud University in the Netherlands and a doctorate degree in sacred theology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.
From 2002 to 2006, Capucao worked as a junior researcher at Radboud University's theology faculty.
The Prelature of Infanta covers northern Quezon province and Aurora province and is home to approximately 373,000 church members.
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