CALBAYOG, Diocese of. - City in the province of Samar in the Philippine Islands, and seat of the diocese suffragan of the Name of Jesus (Cebu), comprising the islands of Samar, Biliran and Capul, with a territory of 13,556 sq km (1948).

The diocese has 210 churches and a total population of 600,000 inhabitants, of whom 599,400 are Catholics, distributed among 38 parishes, under the direction of 45 diocesan priests and 7 regulars (1948).

Erected on 10 April 1910 by dismemberment of the diocese of Cebu, C. became first a suffragan of Manila, and then of Cebu, when the latter was elevated to metropolitan see (28 April 1934). In Nov. 1937 the province of Leyte was detached from C. to form the diocese of Palo.

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BIBL.: AAS, 2 (1910), p. 290; 27 (1935), p. 263 ff.; 30 (1938), pp. 245-48; C. F. Wemyss Brown, Samar and Leyte, in Cath. Enc., XIII, p. 415, XVI, p. 34; Suppl., p. 141; The Official Catholic Directory, New York 1938, part 2, p. 642 ff.

Corrado Morin

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