Jose Elmer Mangalinao
Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao is a Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the third and current Bishop of Bayombong since 2018.
Biography
Mangalinao was born in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija on April 7, 1960. He studied theology at the San Carlos Seminary in Makati; among his classmates were Archbishops Socrates Villegas and Florentino Lavarias. He was ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Cabanatuan on October 15, 1985. He served as spiritual director at the Maria Assumpta Seminary in Cabanatuan and was concurrent Parish Priest at the Saint Isidore the Worker Parish in Talavera until 1993. In 1995, he obtained a licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University after two years studying in Rome.After returning to the Philippines, he served as Parish Priest in Gapan and became Vicar General and member of the College of Consultors in 2006. He became Parish Priest of Cabanatuan Cathedral from 2008 to 2014. In 2014, he was also appointed as President of the College of the Immaculate Conception in Cabanatuan. In 2016 he was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Urusi and Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen–Dagupan.
On May 24, 2018 he was appointed by Pope Francis to become Bishop of Bayombong. He was a former chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education.