Jose Araneta Cabantan
Jose Araneta Cabantan was born June 19, 1957, in Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental. He studied chemical engineering at the Cebu Institute of Technology, pastoral ministry at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Cagayan de Oro, and earned a licentiate in sacred theology (S.T.L.) at Loyola School of Theology.
He was ordained a priest for Cagayan de Oro on April 30, 1990. He served as administrator of San Roque, Catarman, as seminary dean and formator, as pastor of Medalla Milagrosa, and as social action director.
He was appointed Bishop of Malaybalay on February 17, 2010, and installed on May 15, 2010. He was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro on June 23, 2020, and installed on August 28, 2020.
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass by Archbishop Cabantan, in Malaybalay or in Cagayan de Oro, was found. The SSPX Sunday Mass at the Vamenta Building, Carmen, Cagayan de Oro, is not a diocesan site, and no Cabantan act toward it was found.
He is not to be confused with Bishop Noel Pedregosa of Malaybalay's successor diocese or with the Mangalinao mining-barricade case in Bayombong, which belongs to another bishop and is not filed here.