Fidelis Bautista Layog
Fidelis Bautista Layog was born November 20, 1968, in Dagupan City. He studied philosophy at Mary Help of Christians College Seminary and theology at the Immaculate Conception School of Theology in Vigan City, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan on April 29, 1996. His episcopal motto is Secundum Verbum Tuum, 'According to Your Word'.
He spent his first four years of priesthood as Prefect of Discipline at Mary Help of Christians Seminary in Dagupan City from 1996 to 2000, obtained a degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome in 2003, and served as parish priest of the Holy Family Parish in Sta. Barbara from 2006 to 2009, as parish priest of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Calasiao and vicar forane from 2011 to 2014, as director of Mapandan Catholic School from 2014 to 2016, and from 2017 as parish priest of Our Lady of Purification Parish in Binmaley, moderator of its team ministry, and director of the St. Columban Institute of Domalandan in Lingayen.
Pope Francis appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Lingayen-Dagupan on March 18, 2019, and he was consecrated on May 8, 2019, by Archbishop Socrates Villegas, with Bishops Renato Mayugba and Enrique Macaraeg as co-consecrators, at Dagupan Cathedral. On January 14, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Alaminos, following the transfer of Bishop Ricardo Baccay to Tuguegarao, and he served in that capacity until the installation of Bishop Napoleon Sipalay on March 19, 2024.
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass by Bishop Layog, in Lingayen-Dagupan or in Alaminos, was found in the searches listed.
He serves as auxiliary under Archbishop Villegas, whose restricted acts are the ordinary's, not the auxiliary's, and are not coded here.