en Jose Elmer Mangalinao

Styles of
**Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao**
Styles of; Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

The Most Reverend

Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao

D.D.
The Most Reverend; Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao; D.D.
Bishop of Bayombong
	Bishop Jose Elmer Mangalinao (August 2024, Baliwag Church)
See	Bayombong
Appointed	24 May 2018
Installed	25 July 2018
Predecessor	Ramon Barrera Villena, D.D.
Successor	Incumbent
Previous post(s)	Chairman, CBCP Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education (2021-2023); Auxiliary Bishop of Lingayen-Dagupan (2016–2018); Titular Bishop of Urusi(2016–2018);
Orders
Ordination	15 October 1985
Consecration	22 August 2016; by Socrates Villegas, D.D.
Personal details
Born	April 7, 1960 (age 64); Cabiao, Nueva Ecija
Nationality	Filipino
Motto	Laetitia in Domino; (Joy in the Lord);
Coat of arms

Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao (born April 7, 1960) is a Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the third and current Bishop of Bayombong since 2018.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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.^[5] He was a former chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education.

Activism

On April 22, 2024, he led the Diocese and other environmental groups in filing a legal petition calling for the closure of the OceanaGold mining concession in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, which was also supported by the provincial government and other organizations.^[6]^[7]^[8]