Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Cathedral Roxas City, Capiz

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capiz is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic church in the Philippines. The archdiocese covers the entire province of Capiz on the island of Panay in the visayas and has its see in Roxas City.

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History

The Diocese of Capiz was carved from the territory of the Archdiocese of Jaro on 27 January 1951, and covers the whole civil province of Capiz and Roxas City, with the dioceses of Kalibo and Romblon as suffragans under the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Capiz.

On 17 January 1976, Pope Saint Paul VI elevated the bishopric to the rank of archdiocese. Despite the seat of the archdiocese being in Roxas City, it has retained the old name of the city, the Municipality of Capiz, as the Diocese of Capiz predates the civil renaming of the territory.