Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan, vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, speaks before a forum on inter-religious dialogue in Manila on Dec. 4, 2019. (Photo by Mark Saludes)
Jul 9 2021
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan was elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on July 8 during the conference’s online plenary assembly.
The 62-year-old prelate has been serving as the conference’s vice president since December 2017 with Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao as president.
Meanwhile, Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara of the Diocese of Pasig has been elected the CBCP’s new vice president.
Bishop Vergara, 58, is currently a member of the Permanent Council of the bishops’ conference and used to head the Episcopal Commission on Social Communications.
Bishop David was ordained priest for the Archdiocese of San Fernando in the province of Pampanga in 1983. He is known as one of the country’s leading Catholic Bible scholars.
In 2006, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of San Fernando, a post he served for about 14 years until he was named bishop of the Diocese of Kalookan in the Philippine capital in January 2016.
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