Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Enrique Macaraeg | |
Bishop of Tarlac | |
Metropolis: | San Fernando |
Appointed: | 31 March 2016 |
Term End: | 23 October 2023 |
Predecessor: | Florentino Ferrer Cinense |
Successor: | Vacant |
Ordination: | 19 May 1979 |
Ordained By: | Federico Guba Limon |
Consecration: | 24 May 2016 |
Consecrated By: | Socrates Villegas |
Birth Name: | Enrique de Vera Macaraeg |
Birth Date: | 1955 12, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Pangasinan, Philippines |
Death Place: | Malasiqui, Philippines |
Motto: | VIVERE CHRISTUS EST |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of Arms of Enrique Macaraeg.svg |
Enrique Macaraeg | |
Dipstyle: |
Enrique de Vera Macaraeg (December 28, 1955 – October 23, 2023) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Manila, Macaraeg was ordained as a priest in 1979. He was appointed Bishop of Tarlac in 2016, serving until his death in 2023.[1] Macaraeg was the chairman of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines – Episcopal Commission on the Laity (ECLA) until his death. Severo Caermare (vice chairman of ECLA) assumed the two-year term chairmanship from December 15, 2023 succeeding the late Bishop Macaraeg.[2] On October 23, 2023, Macaraeg died due to a cardiac arrest while playing basketball in Malasiqui. He was 67.[3]