Victor Ocampo
Victor de la Cruz Ocampo (March 16, 1952 – March 16, 2023) was a Filipino bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Gumaca from September 3, 2015 until his death on March 16, 2023. He was also the diocesan administrator of Balanga while awaiting for the installation of Socrates Villegas' successor Ruperto Santos as the diocese's bishop from November 4, 2009 to July 8, 2010. Ocampo was the first to be ordained as priest in the Diocese of Balanga on 1977 two years after it founded in 1975, as well as the first from the said diocese to serve as bishop outside its jurisdiction Bataan and the ecclesiastical province of San Fernando, Pampanga (Diocese of Gumaca being a suffragan or part of the ecclesiastical province of Lipa, Batangas).
Bishop Victor Ocampo | |
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Bishop of Gumaca | |
Province | Lipa |
See | Gumaca |
Appointed | June 12, 2015 |
Installed | September 3, 2015 |
Term ended | March 16, 2023 |
Predecessor | Buenaventura Famadico |
Successor | Vacant |
Orders | |
Ordination | November 5, 1977 |
Consecration | August 29, 2015 by Luis Antonio Tagle |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | March 16, 2023 71) Gumaca, Quezon, Philippines | (aged
Nationality | Filipino |
Previous post(s) | Diocesan Administrator of Balanga (2009–2010) |
Motto | CORPUS MEUM ("This is my body”) |
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Styles of Victor Ocampo | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |