Roman Catholic Diocese of Alaminos

• Most Rev. Jesus Aputen Cabrera, D.D.: 22 April 1985 Appointed – 1 Jul 2007 (Resigned, Bishop Emeritus of Alaminos)
• Most Rev. Marlo Mendoza Peralta, D.D.: 31 March 2006 – 1 July 2007 (Coadjutor Bishop of Alaminos); 1 July 2007 Succeeded – 30 December 2013 (Appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Nueva Segovia)
• Most Rev. Ricardo Lingan Baccay, D.D.: 20 February 2016 Appointed – 18 October 2019 (Appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Tuguegarao)
• Most Rev. Fidelis Bautista Layog, D.D.: 14 January 2020 – Present (Apostolic Administrator "sede vacante")

Cathedral-Parish of St. Joseph the Patriarch, Alaminos City

2012 Easter Sunday Mass (Main Altar)

In the past the Alaminos City had various names (San Jose de Soyang, San Jose de Casborran, Sarapsap) and underwent several transfers and locations except, for a gap of half a century, the Recollects stayed at Alaminos since its foundation in 1610 until the Philippine Revolution of 1896. A great fire reduced the town into ashes and it was thereafter renamed Sarapsap. The actual name was taken after Governor General Juan de Alaminos who visited it in 1872.

Among other edifices constructed by Recollects is the majestic cathedral dedicated to Saint Joseph. Father Manuel Bosquete who was at the helm of the San Jose de Casborran mission from 1838–1849 started the construction of the divine temple. His successor Father Jose Tornos, who was proficient in Pangasinense, inaugurated it in 1857. This Recollect minister who took over the parochial administration in 1849 remained in Alaminos for almost thirty years and endowed the church with the best ornaments. Father Tornos died in 1878 and was buried in the future cathedral. At the church pavement one can view his tombstone in Spanish.

Father Patricio Marcellan writes in 1879: "The present church and parochial house are made of brick manufactured in the same town. The first oven for brick-making making was built under the supervision of Father Manuel Bosquete, the first Recollect parish priest of this town [sic], and the edifices are the tallest and most spacious in the province, which draws naturally any visitor's attention." The church still attracts attention up to this day, already as a cathedral since its erection of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alaminos in 1985. Alaminos is not a big city in terms of population, with only about 75,000 inhabitants. But the faithful can boast of the structure of their cathedral—spacious, majestic and well-proportioned—and equally stable belfry made of bricks.

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The Clergy of the Diocese of Alaminos with Bishop Baccay at St. Joseph Cathedral Parish