Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Joseph Nacua | |
Bishop of Ilagan | |
Archdiocese: | Tuguegarao |
Appointed: | June 10, 2008 |
Term End: | February 25, 2017 |
Predecessor: | Sergio Lasam Utleg |
Successor: | David William Valencia Antonio |
Ordination: | June 26, 1971 |
Consecration: | August 19, 2008 |
Consecrated By: | Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan |
Birth Name: | Joseph Benedict Amangi Nacua |
Birth Date: | 1945 1, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Mankayan, Mountain Province, Philippines |
Death Place: | Lipa, Batangas, Philippines |
Motto: | RECORCATUS MISERICORDIAE SUAE |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Joseph Amangi Nacua.svg |
Joseph Nacua | |
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Joseph Benedict Amangi Nacua[1] (January 5, 1945 – September 10, 2022) was a Filipino Roman Catholic prelate. Nacua was born in the Philippines and was ordained to the priesthood in 1971. He served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ilagan, Philippines from 2008 until his resignation in 2017.[2]
Nacua is the first Filipino clergyman belonging to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin to get ordained to the episcopate.[3]
Nacua died on September 10, 2022, while confined in a hospital in Lipa, Batangas.[4] [5]