Rev. Msgr. Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao new Auxiliary Bishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines

The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao new auxiliary bishop of Langayen-Dagupan, Philippines, assigning him the titular see of Urusi. Currently Mons. Jose Mangalinao  was serving as  the Vicar General of the same diocese.

Monsignor Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao was born in Cabiao in Nueva Ecija, in the Diocese of Cabanatuan  April 7, 1960. After his Secondary Education, he studied philosophy and theology at the San Carlos Seminary, in  Makaty City.

He was ordained on  October 15, 1985 for the Diocese of Cabanatuan.  He was here till 1993 as the  Spiritual Director at Assumption Seminary, Cabanatuan City, and also held the post of assistant Parish priest of St. Isidore the Worker parish. From 1993 to 1995 he was sent to Rome, where he obtained a licentiate in theology at the Gregorian University.

Back in the diocese, he first continued to serve as a professor in  the seminary, then became the first Episcopal Vicar for Pastoral Planning and pastor of the parish of Three Kings in Gapan, then, in 2006, he was appointed Vicar General and Board Member of Consultors. From 2008 to 2014 he was also the  parish priest of the Cathedral. In 2014, retaining the post of Vicar General, he  also began to serve as Dean of the College of the Immaculate Conception in Cabanatuan City.