Ricardo Lingan Baccay (born April 3, 1961) is the fourth Archbishop of the

Archdiocese of Tuguegarao The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuguegarao is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Tuguegarao is a river delta city that became center of the archdiocese in the Province of Cagayan, on the island of ...

Biography

Ricardo Lingan Baccay was born in

Tuguegarao Tuguegarao ( or ), officially the City of Tuguegarao ( ibg, Siyudad nat Tugegaraw; itv, Siyudad yo Tugegaraw; ilo, Siudad ti Tuguegarao; fil, Lungsod ng Tuguegarao ), is a 3rd class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component ci ...

on April 3, 1961. He attended the secondary schools at the San Jacinto seminary and did his studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He was subsequently awarded a Master of Arts at the Lyceum of Aparri and a doctorate in educational management from the University of Manila. He was ordained a priest together with Bishop

Danilo Ulep Juan Danilo Bangayan Ulep, D.D. (born 24 June 1962) is a Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the fifth and current Bishop-Prelate of Batanes and was elected as the Chairman of the Episcopal Commission on Cultural Heritage of the Chur ...

of Batanes on April 10, 1987, by Archbishop Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan. On February 3, 2007,

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appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao and Titular Bishop of ''Gabala''. He was consecrated bishop on April 10, 2007, by Fernando Filoni, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines. Co-consecrators were Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan, Archbishop of Tuguegarao; and

Sergio Lasam Utleg Sergio Lasam Utleg, D.D., (born in Solana, Cagayan, September 11, 1943), is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. He is the former Archbishop of Tuguegarao in Tuguegarao, Philippines and succeeded Archbishop Diosdado Talam ...

, Bishop of Laoag. On February 20, 2016,

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appointed him as the third Bishop of the

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in Pangasinan. After three years, on October 18, 2019, Pope Francis appointed him as the Fourth Archbishop of Tuguegarao in Cagayan following the resignation of Archbishop Sergio Utleg and returning him to the Ecclesiastical Province of Tuguegarao. He was installed on January 14, 2020, and received the

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, a symbol of authority as metropolitan archbishop, exactly a year later.

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