Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency, The Most Reverend |
Alberto S. Uy | |
Bishop of Tagbilaran | |
Province: | Tagbilaran |
Appointed: | 13 October 2016 |
Term Start: | 5 January 2017 |
Predecessor: | Leonardo Y. Medroso |
Successor: | Incumbent |
Ordination: | 14 April 1993 |
Consecration: | 5 January 2017 |
Consecrated By: | Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle |
Birth Name: | Alberto Sy Uy |
Birth Date: | 18 October 1966 |
Birth Place: | Ubay, Bohol, Philippines |
Nationality: | Filipino |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of Arms of Alberto Uy.svg |
Alberto Uy |
Alberto "Abet" S. Uy, (born October 18, 1966), is a Filipino Roman Catholic clergyman who is currently the Bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran in the Philippines.
Pope Francis appointed Uy as bishop on October 13, 2016.[1] [2] Uy was consecrated as bishop at the Blessed Trinity Cathedral in Talibon, Bohol, seat of the Diocese of Talibon on January 5, 2017, and was installed as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran on January 6, 2017 at Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker in Tagbilaran City. He succeeded retired bishop Leonardo Y. Medroso.[3]
In May, 2024, Uy, in an open letter, praised Bohol Representatives Edgar Chatto, Ma. Vanessa C. Aumentado and Alexie Tutor for their “courageous stance” in voting negative versus the divorce bill.[4]