Gilbert Garcera
Gilbert Armea Garcera | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Metropolitan Archbishop of Lipa | |||||||||||||||||||||
Garcera in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Archdiocese | Lipa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Appointed | February 2, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Installed | April 21, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Ramon Arguelles | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ordination | May 29, 1983 by Teopisto Valderrama Alberto | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Consecration | June 29, 2007 by Leonardo Legaspi | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | February 2, 1959 Magarao, Camarines Sur, Philippines | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Denomination | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Holy Rosary Major Seminary | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Motto | Ad omnia mittam te (Latin for 'To wherever I will send you, you will be going') | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Styles of Gilbert A. Garcera | |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop, Monsignor |
Gilbert Armea Garcera (born February 2, 1959) is a Filipino Catholic prelate. He has been the metropolitan archbishop of Lipa since 2017, and president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines since 2025. His previous assignment was as the bishop of the Diocese of Daet in Camarines Norte.