Retired Baguio bishop Cenzon passes away

Bishop Emeritus Carlito Cenzon of Baguio, 1939-2019 (Photo: Diocese of Baguio via CBCP News/Website)

MANILA — Retired Baguio Bishop Carlito Cenzon died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Quezon City at 3:37 p.m. on Wednesday. He was 80.

“The Diocese of Baguio is one in prayer with the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM) community in this hour of sadness,” Baguio Bishop Victor Bendico said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) news website.

The remains of Cenzon will be at the CICM Provincial House in New Manila, Quezon City until Sunday. On July 1-2, his body will be at the St.

William’s Cathedral in Tabuk, Kalinga. He will then be brought to the Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral in Baguio City on the evening of July 2 and will remain there until July 6.

The necrological service will be at 4 p.

m. on July 5 and the Funeral Mass will be at the cathedral at 8:30 a.m. the following day.

Cenzon will be buried at the CICM Cemetery inside the Maryhurst Seminary compound in Baguio City.

He served as bishop for nearly 27 years and was appointed in 1992 as Vicar Apostolic of Tabuk, Kalinga. Cenzon retired from the pastoral governance of the Baguio diocese in 2016 at the age of 70.

Among the posts he served at the CBCP were as chairman of the Commission on Mutual Relations and as a member of the Commission on Indigenous Peoples and Commission on Mission.

In January 2002, he was named Vicar Apostolic of Baguio and two years later became its bishop when Baguio was elevated into a diocese.
Cenzon was ordained in 1965 for the CICM.