Jose Rapadas III

Jose Ramirez Rapadas III (born July 12, 1972) is a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is currently the Bishop of the Diocese of Iligan in the Philippines.^[1]

The Most Reverend Jose Rapadas III D.D.
Bishop of Iligan
Rapadas in 2024
Province	Ecclesiastical Province of Ozamiz
See	Iligan
Installed	13 June 2019
Predecessor	Elenito Galido
Orders
Ordination	19 May 1999 by Antonio Ledesma
Consecration	20 August 2019 by Julius Tonel
Personal details
Born	Jose Ramirez Rapadas III (1972-07-12) July 12, 1972 (age 53) Tondo, Manila, Philippines
Denomination	Roman Catholicism
Alma mater	Loyola School of Theology St. John Vianney Theological Seminary
Motto	Quia audit servus tuus
Coat of arms

Background

Rapadas was born on July 12, 1972, in Tondo, Manila, but he was raised in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. He attended St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Cagayan de Oro, and was ordained a priest in 1999. He also attended the Loyola School of Theology at the Ateneo de Manila University where he obtained his licentiate in dogmatic theology.^[2]

Ministry

Sacerdotal

He served as a seminary professor and rector at Saint Joseph College Seminary, and as professor of religious studies University of Zamboanga. Prior to his appointment as bishop of Iligan, he served as vicar general of the diocese of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay.^[3]

Episcopal

Pope Francis appointed Rapadas to be the 5th Bishop of Iligan on June 13, 2019, nearly two years after the passing of then-Bishop Elenito Galido in 2017.^[4] He took over from Bishop Severo Caermare of the diocese of Dipolog whom Pope Francis had assigned to administer the parish during its sede vacante period.^[5]