The Diocese of Iligan (Lat: ''Dioecesis Iliganensis'') is a

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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or

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of the

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in the

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, comprising 26 parishes in

Iligan City Iligan, officially the City of Iligan (; Bukid: ''Ciudad ta Iligan''; Maranao: ''Bandar a Iligan''; ), is a highly urbanized city in the region of Northern Mindanao, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 363,115 ...

and twelve municipalities located at the northern half of the province of

Lanao del Norte Lanao del Norte ( Cebuano: ''Amihanang Lanao''; ; Maranao: ''Pangotaraan Ranao''), officially the Province of Lanao del Norte, is a province in the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao region. Its capital is Tubod. The province border ...

History

Erected on February 17, 1971, as a territorial prelature out of the newly elevated Diocese of Ozamis, it was subdivided on November 20, 1976, to form the new Territorial Prelature of Marawi. On November 15, 1982, the prelature nullius was elevated to a full diocese and is a suffragan first to the

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and then later to the Archdiocese of Ozamis after its elevation on January 24, 1983. The current bishop is Jose Rapadas III, appointed in 2019. Bishop Rapadas was a diocesan clergyman from the

Diocese of Ipil The Diocese of Ipil () is a Roman Catholic Diocese located in the municipality of Ipil in the ecclesiastical province of Zamboanga in the Philippines. It is an ecclesiastical territory in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay. It occupies an area ...

in the province of

Zamboanga Sibugay Zamboanga Sibugay, officially the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay (; ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. Its capital and largest town is Ipil and it borders Zamboanga del Norte to the north, ...

. He is the fifth bishop of the Diocese.

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