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Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia Archidioecesis Novae Segobiae Arkidiocesis ti Nueva Segovia Arkidiyosesis ng Nueva Segovia Arquidiócesis de Nueva Segovia
Catholic
Vigan Cathedral
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Philippines
Territory	Ilocos Sur
Ecclesiastical province	Nueva Segovia
Metropolitan	Nueva Segovia
Statistics
Area	2,579 km (996 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 763,549 634,569 (83.1%)
Parishes	41
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	August 14, 1595; 429 years ago (August 14, 1595) (Diocese) June 29, 1951; 73 years ago (June 29, 1951) (Archdiocese)
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle
Co-cathedral	Santa Maria Pro-cathedral (temporary)
Patron saint	Saint Paul
Secular priests	70
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Marlo Mendoza Peralta
Suffragans	Renato Mayugba (Laoag) Leopoldo Jaucian (Bangued) Rafael T. Cruz (Baguio)
Bishops emeritus	Ernesto Antolin Salgado
Map
Jurisdiction of the metropolitan see within the Philippines.

The Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It covers the province of Ilocos Sur, on the island of Luzon. The see of the archdiocese is the city of Vigan.

The archdiocese was erected in 1595 in the city of Nueva Segovia (modern-day Lal-lo, Cagayan). The see was moved in 1758 to Vigan because of its relative distance, at the request of Bishop Juan de la Fuente Yepes, during the pontificate of Benedict XIV. It became an archdiocese in 1951.

The archdiocese features the only archbishop's residence in the Philippines built during the Spanish era. It is located just beside the Vigan Cathedral. The rear of the convent also had an access to nearby Govantes Dike, apparently a convenient exit point by sea, but it is no longer in use as the dike is no longer navigable. Both the archbishop's residence and the cathedral itself remains to be one of the greatest contributions of the Order of Augustinian Recollects in the Philippines.

The archdiocese also operates its own radio station, dzNS ("NS" meaning "New Sound" and "Nueva Segovia"), which is a member of the Catholic Media Network.

The archdiocese also operates a weekly newspaper, Timek ti Amianan (Ilocano: "Voice of the North").

History

The Diocese of Nueva Segovia was established together with Cebu and Nueva Cáceres by Pope Clement VIII on August 14, 1595, by virtue of the papal bull Super Specula Militantis Ecclesia under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception. Its first bishop was Miguel de Benavides. The ecclesiastical jurisdiction extended to the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Abra, La Union, Pangasinan, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Batanes, Mountain Province and five northern towns of Tarlac.

Although Vigan was the oldest town created by the Spaniards in the north, it was not made the seat of the diocese which was created for Northern Luzon since the preferred locale, Nueva Segovia, a city at the mouth of the Ibanag River in Cagayan, was by then already a flourishing Spanish settlement while Vigan was then only a pueblo, a town. Eventually however, the city of Nueva Segovia was gradually effaced by the floods of the Rio Grande, and the seat was provisionally transferred to the nearby town of Lal-lo, Cagayan. On September 7, 1758, the seat was permanently transferred to Vigan, retaining the old name, up to the present. The transfer was made at the request of the bishop Juan de la Fuente Yepes during the pontificate of Benedict XIV. The year 2008 marks the 250th year since the transfer.

Nueva Segovia was elevated to an archdiocese, separated from Manila on June 29, 1951, by virtue of the papal bull Quo in Philippina Republica of Pope Pius XII. As the other local churches matured, there was eventual weaning from the archdiocese. Presently, it covers the civil province of Ilocos Sur, with the Dioceses of Laoag, Bangued and Baguio, and the Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe as suffragans. Santiago C. Sancho was the first archbishop of the newly elevated metropolitan church. Since Sancho, there had been five other Ordinaries of Nueva Segovia – Archbishops Juan C. Sison, Jose T. Sanchez, Orlando B. Quevedo, Edmundo M. Abaya, Ernesto A. Salgado and currently, Marlo Mendoza Peralta who is 37th bishop and 7th archbishop.

The archdiocese maintains a complex of mass communications media – an AM radio station, DzNS (963 kHz) founded in 1968; a weekly newspaper, Timek ti Amianan founded in 1983; and a printing press, the Imprenta Nueva Segovia founded in 1995.

In December 2018, the Nueva Segovia Archdiocesan Archives known as Archivo Nueva Segovia (ANS) was declared a national cultural treasure by the National Archives of the Philippines becoming one of only three archives, including the National Archives and the University of Santo Tomas Archives, to be given the distinction. The archives was established in the early 1990s by Archbishop Orlando Quevedo.

Coat of arms

The sword and the book are symbols of Paul the Apostle, patron saint of the cathedral at Vigan. The sword was the instrument of his martyrdom, the book stands for the gospel which he preached as an apostle. The inscription Gladius Spiritus (Sword of the Spirit) is taken from his epistle to the Ephesians (6:17): "Make the helmet of salvation your own, and the sword of the Spirit, God's word." The red background stands for his burning zeal for souls and for his martyrdom.

The snaky figure in silver that traverses the bottom of the field represents the Abra river on the north bank of which is the seat of the archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

The popular name of the seat of Nueva Segovia is Vigan which derived its name from the Ilocano word "bigaan," a contraction of 'cabigaan' meaning where the 'biga' abounds, a plant of the taro family but bigger than the taro and with bigger tubers; hence its scientific name Alocasia macrorhiza meaning an alocasia with big root.

Ordinaries

Bishops

• Miguel de Benavides, 1595–1602
• Diego Soria, 1602–1613
• Miguel García Serrano, 1616–1618
• Juan Rentería, 1618–1626
• Hernando Guerrero, 1627–1634
• Diego Aduarte, 1634–1636
• Fernando Montero Espinosa, 1639–1646
• Rodrigo Cárdenas, 1650–1661
• José Millán de Poblete, 1675, died as Bishop-elect
• Francisco Pizaro de Orellana, 1680–1683
• Diego de Gorospe e Irala, 1699–1715
• Pedro Mejorada, 1717–1719
• Jeronimo Herrera y Lopez, 1724–1742
• Manuel del Rio Flores, 1744–1745
• Juan de Arechederra, 1750–1751
• Juan de La Fuente Yepes, 1753–1757
• Bernardo de Ustariz, 1763–1764
• Miguel García San Esteban, 1768–1779
• Juan García Ruiz, 1784–1796
• Agustín Pedro Blaquier, 1801–1803
• Cayetano Pallás, 1806–1814
• Francisco Albán Barreiro, 1817–1837
• Rafael Masoliver, 1846–1846
• Vicente Barreiro y Pérez, 1848–1856
• Juan José Aragonés, 1865–1872
• Mariano Cuartero y Sierra, 1874–1887
• José Hevía y Campomanes, 1889–1903
• Dennis Joseph Dougherty, 1903–1908
• James Jordan Carroll, 1908–1912
• Peter Joseph Hurth, 1913–1926
• Santiago Caragnan Sancho, 1927–1951, bishop until June 29, 1951

Archbishops

Archbishop			Period in Office	Coat of Arms
1.		Santiago Caragnan Sancho	1951–1966
2.		Juan Callanta Sison	1966–1981
3.		Jose Tomas Sanchez	1982–1986
4.		Orlando Beltran Quevedo	1986–1998
5.		Edmundo Abaya	1999–2005
6.		Ernesto Antolin Salgado	2005–2013
7.		Marlo Mendoza Peralta	2014 - Present

Suffragan dioceses

• Diocese of Baguio
• Diocese of Bangued
• Diocese of Laoag

Notable churches under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese

• Conversion of Saint Augustine Parish, Bantay
• Minor Basilica of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine, Sinait
• Saint William the Hermit Parish, Magsingal
• Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of the Assumption, Santa Maria
• Archdiocesan Shrine of Saint Vincent Ferrer, San Vicente
• Archdiocesan Shrine of Saint Lucy the Martyr, Santa Lucia

See also

• Catholic Church in the Philippines
• List of Catholic dioceses in the Philippines
• List of Catholic archdioceses

References

1. "(Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese)". gcatholic.org. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
2. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia". GCatholic.org. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
3. ^ "Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
4. Hermoso, Christina (December 9, 2018). "Nueva Segovia archives declared national cultural treasure". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
5. Madriaga, Mariano (1957). "The Coats-of-Arms of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions in the Philippines: Part I. The Metropolitan Sees". Philippine Studies. 5 (2): 177–190. JSTOR 42720389. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
6. ^ Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V. Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. pp. 292–293. (in Latin)

External links

• Media related to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia at Wikimedia Commons

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11149b.htm
• http://www.cbcponline.org/jurisdictions/nueva_segovia.html

v t e Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia
Archidioecesis Novae Segobiae
Territory	Ilocos Sur
Ordinaries	Miguel de Benavides Diego Soria Miguel García Serrano Juan Rentería Hernando Guerrero Diego Aduarte Fernando Montero Espinosa Rodrigo Cárdenas José Millán de Poblete (bishop-elect) Francisco Pizaro de Orellana Diego de Gorospe e Irala Pedro Mejorada Jeronimo Herrera y Lopez Manuel del Rio Flores Juan de Arechederra Juan de La Fuente Yepes Bernardo de Ustariz Miguel García San Esteban Juan García Ruiz Agustín Pedro Blaquier Cayetano Pallás Francisco Albán Barreiro Rafael Masoliver Vicente Barreiro y Pérez Juan José Aragonés Mariano Cuartero y Sierra José Hevía y Campomanes Dennis Joseph Dougherty James Jordan Carroll Peter Joseph Hurth Santiago Caragnan Sancho Juan Callanta Sison Jose Tomas Sanchez Orlando Quevedo Edmundo Abaya Ernesto Antolin Salgado Marlo Peralta
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, Vigan
Basilica	Sinait Santa Maria
Shrines	Bantay Santa Lucia San Vicente Santa Maria Narvacan
Parishes	Vicariate of St. Paul the Apostle Metropolitan Cathedral of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, Vigan St. Dominic of Guzman (Sto. Domingo, Ilocos Sur) St. Ildephonse (San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur) St. Augustine (Bantay) St. Vincent Ferrer (San Vicente, Ilocos Sur) St. Catherine of Alexandria (Sta. Catalina, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady of Hope (Caoayan) Christ the King (Bantay) Vicariate of St. Mark the Evangelist St. Nicolas of Tolentino (Sinait) St. Mark the Evangelist (Cabugao) St. John the Baptist (Cabugao) St. Isidore the Farmer (San Juan, Ilocos Sur) St. William the Hermit (Magsingal) St. Lorenzo Ruiz (Magsingal) San Padre Pio de Pietrelcina (Magsingal) Vicariate of Our Lady of Assumption St. Catherine of Alexandria (Santa, Ilocos Sur) St. Francis Xavier (Narvacan) Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Narvacan) St. Joseph (Nagbukel) Most Holy Name of Jesus (Burgos, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady of the Assumption (Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur) St. Stephen Protomartyr (San Esteban, Ilocos Sur) Vicariate of St. Therese Immaculate Conception (Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur) St. Joseph the Worker (Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady of Guadalupe (Sta. Cruz, Ilocos Sur) St. Andrew the Apostle (Suyo, Ilocos Sur) St. Augustine (Tagudin) Immaculate Conception (Quirino, Ilocos Sur) Holy Child of Prague (Cervantes, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady of Lourdes (Alilem) St. Anthony of Padua (Sugpon) Vicariate of St. Joseph St. John of Sahagun (Candon) St. James the Greater (Santiago, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady of Lourdes (Banayoyo) Our Lady of Fatima (Lidlidda) St. Michael the Archangel (San Emilio, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady Help of Christians (Candon) Sacred Heart of Jesus (Galimuyod) St. Joseph (Salcedo, Ilocos Sur) Our Lady of the Pillar (Del Pilar, Ilocos Sur) St. Joseph the Worker (Sigay) St. Lucy (Sta. Lucia, Ilocos Sur)
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