{"id":137683,"date":"2017-12-09T05:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137683"},"modified":"2017-12-09T05:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T10:31:15","slug":"pope-appoints-bishop-caermare-as-apostolic-admin-of-iligan-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/09\/pope-appoints-bishop-caermare-as-apostolic-admin-of-iligan-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope appoints Bishop Caermare as Apostolic Admin of Iligan Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100094\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Pope-Francis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100094\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Pope-Francis.png\" alt=\"FILE: Pope Francis has appointed Dipolog Bishop Severo Caermare as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Iligan. (Photo: Long Thi\u00ean\/Flickr, Public Domain)\" width=\"634\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Pope-Francis.png 634w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Pope-Francis-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Pope Francis has appointed Dipolog Bishop Severo Caermare as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Iligan. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/136682034@N03\/25481514214\/\">Photo<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/136682034@N03\/\">Long Thi\u00ean\/Flickr<\/a>, Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Pope Francis has appointed Dipolog Bishop Severo Caermare as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Iligan.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article posted in the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the 48-year-old prelate will oversee the diocese in an acting capacity until the Holy Father names a new bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Caermare\u2019s appointment was announced on Dec. 6, a day after the death of Bishop Elenito Galigo, who had served the diocese of 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old bishop died at a hospital in Iligan City, years after battling cirrhosis of the liver.<\/p>\n<p>The newly named Apostolic Administrator of the Iligan Diocese was ordained priest at the age of 26 in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a priest for 21 years and holds a Master\u2019s degree in Theology and Pastoral Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Caermare was appointed bishop of Dipolog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Pope Francis has appointed Dipolog Bishop Severo Caermare as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Iligan. According to an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[37876,37875,2300],"class_list":["post-137683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-apostolic-administrator-of-the-diocese-of-iligan","tag-dipolog-bishop-severo-caermare","tag-pope-francis","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}