Pope Leo XIV today appointed Fr. Dave Dean Capucao as the new prelate of Infanta, in the Philippines. In this way, the second bishop who names in his pontificate is for Asia, after yesterday he appointed the first in Peru.
The elected bishop in the Philippines happens in the position to Mons. Bernardino Cortés, whose resignation presented in July 2024, when he turned 75, the retirement age of the bishops.
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With his appointment, he points out the place Web of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Capucao will be the Fourth Prelate of Infanta.
Who is the second bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV?
The Press Office of Vatican Dave Capucao reports, the second bishop chosen by Leo XIV, is 59 years old. He was born on September 25, 1965 in Daet, Naga, in the province of South Camarines. He entered the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, studied theology at St. Louis University in Baguio; and theology at the Maryhill School of Theology, in Ciudad Quezon.
He was ordained a priest on October 3, 1994.
The Filipino bishops point out that barely ordered priest, Capucao was appointed founding pastor of a rural parish in a poor area of the province of Aurora, where it served six years.
In 2000 he was sent to the Netherlands to study at the Catholic University of Nimega, now Universidad Radboud, where two years later he obtained a master’s degree in intercultural and inter -religious theology. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as a Junior researcher at the Faculty of theology of the University.
Since 2006, the elected bishop began his parish work in the Netherlands.
Capucao also has a doctorate in sacred theology from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
He returned to the Philippines in 2011 to be a trainer at the San José Formation House (SJFH) of the Prelature in Ciudad Quezón. In 2015, he was appointed rector of the SJFH.
In 2021, Mons. Cortez appointed him Superintendent of the Catholic Association of Schools of the Prelature of the Infanta (CASPI).
Capucao was until now president of the Center for Empirical Studies on Spirituality, Theology and Religion-Asia (Cesstrel-Asia).
He is also a member of the Dutch School of Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NORTER) and the International Empirical Research Society in Theology (ISERT).
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.