Bishop Emeritus Antonio Palang; 74 | Inquirer News

Bishop Emeritus Antonio Palang; 74

By: - Correspondent / @mvirolaINQ
/ 08:06 PM April 21, 2021

CITY OF CALAPAN—Bishop Emeritus Antonio Palang, SVD, died on Wednesday (April 21) following a cardiac arrest in Cebu City, according to the secretariat of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. He was 74.

Palang was bishop in Occidental Mindoro from May 31, 2002 to February 2016.  Bishop William David Antonio replaced him as apostolic administrator of Occidental Mindoro.

He was also assigned to St. Augustine Minor Seminary in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro in the early 1970s and 1980s.

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He was ordained on July 8, 1972.

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The late Pope John Paul II appointed him apostolic administrator of the Vicariate Apostolic of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro on June 26, 2000.

On March 1, 2002, he was appointed vicar apostolic. He was installed as a bishop on May 31, 2002.

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