Diocese of San Fernando de La Unión Dioecesis Ferdinandopolitana ab Unione Diócesis ti San Fernando de La Union Diyosesis ng San Fernando de La Union Diócesis de San Fernando de La Unión
Catholic
San Fernando Cathedral, La Union
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Philippines
Territory	La Union
Ecclesiastical province	Lingayen-Dagupan
Metropolitan	Lingayen-Dagupan
Statistics
Area	1,493 km2 (576 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2021) 853,600 730,300[1] (85.6%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	19 January 1970
Cathedral	Cathedral-Parish of St. William the Hermit
Patron saint	William the Hermit
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Daniel Oca Presto
Metropolitan Archbishop	Socrates B. Villegas
Website
dioceseofcabanatuan.org

The Diocese of San Fernando de La Union (Latin: Dioecesis Ferdinandopolitana ab Unione) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The diocese was established in 1970 from the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.^[2] It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan.

Ordinaries

No.	Name		From	Until	Coat of Arms
1		Victorino Cristobal Ligot	6 Feb. 1970	18 Sept. 1980
2		Salvador Lazo Lazo	20 Jan. 1981	28 May 1993
3		Antonio Realubin Tobias	28 May 1993	25 Nov. 2003
4		Artemio Lomboy Rillera, SVD	1 Apr. 2005	13 Nov. 2011
Sede Vacante - Apostolic Administrator		Socrates B. Villegas, DD	13 Nov. 2011	19 Jan. 2013
5		Rodolfo Fontiveros Beltran	30 Oct. 2012	17 Jun. 2017
Sede Vacante - Apostolic Administrator		Victor B. Bendico, DD	17 June 2017	02 Aug. 2018
6		Daniel Oca Presto	9 May 2018	present

See also

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

References

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