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Diocese of San Fernando de La Unión

*Dioecesis Ferdinandopolitana ab Unione*

Diócesis ti San Fernando de La Union
Diyosesis ng San Fernando de La Union
Diócesis de San Fernando de La Unión
Diocese of San Fernando de La Unión; Dioecesis Ferdinandopolitana ab Unione; Diócesis ti San Fernando de La Union ; Diyosesis ng San Fernando de La Union ; Diócesis de San Fernando de La Unión
Catholic
	San Fernando Cathedral, La Union
	Coat of arms
Location
Country	Philippines
Territory	La Union
Ecclesiastical province	Lingayen-Dagupan
Metropolitan	Lingayen-Dagupan
Coordinates	16°36′57″N 120°19′03″E / 16.61576°N 120.31752°E
Statistics
Area	1,493 km2 (576 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2021); 853,600; 730,300 (85.6%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	19 January 1970
Cathedral	Cathedral-Parish of St. William the Hermit
Patron saint	William the Hermit
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Daniel Oca Presto
Metropolitan Archbishop	Socrates B. Villegas
Website
	dioceseofcabanatuan.org

The Diocese of San Fernando de La Union (Latin: Dioecesis Ferdinandopolitana ab Unione) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The diocese was established in 1970 from the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.^[2] It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan.

Ordinaries edit

No.		From	Until
1	Victorino Cristobal Ligot	6 Feb. 1970	18 Sept. 1980
2	Salvador Lazo Lazo	20 Jan. 1981	28 May 1993
3	Antonio Realubin Tobias	28 May 1993	25 Nov. 2003
4	Artemio Lomboy Rillera, SVD	1 Apr. 2005	13 Nov. 2011
Sede Vacante - Apostolic Administrator	Socrates B. Villegas, DD	13 Nov. 2011	19 Jan. 2013
5	Rodolfo Fontiveros Beltran	19 Jan. 2013	17 Jun. 2017
Sede Vacante - Apostolic Administrator	Victor B. Bendico, DD	17 June 2017	02 Aug. 2018
6	Daniel Oca Presto	2 Aug. 2018	present