Leopoldo Corpuz Jaucian
Leopoldo Corpuz Jaucian was born July 27, 1960, in Santa, Ilocos Sur. He studied at the Divine Word Academy in Urdaneta City, philosophy at Christ the King Seminary in Quezon City from 1977 to 1979, and underwent the Divine Word novitiate in Tagaytay from 1979 to 1981. His episcopal motto is Manete in me, 'Abide in Me' (John 15:5).
He was sent to Taiwan for the Overseas Training Program from 1982 to 1984, finished his theological formation at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei in 1987, and was ordained a priest on March 12, 1988, at the Divine Word College Chapel in Urdaneta City by Bishop Miguel Cinches. After ordination he returned to Taiwan, serving as assistant pastor at St. Joseph the Worker in Chiayi for one year and as campus minister at Fu Jen Catholic University from 1989 to 1992.
Returning to the Philippines in 1992, he studied guidance and counselling at De La Salle University in Manila, finishing his master's degree in 1995. From 1995 to 2000 he served at St. Jude Catholic School in Manila as campus minister, assistant principal, and assistant director, and in 2000 he was appointed parish priest of the Shrine. He also served as superior of the SVD Manila District and as vicar forane of San Jose de Trozo in the Archdiocese of Manila, and in January 2005 he was elected provincial superior of the SVD Philippine Central Province.
Pope Benedict XVI named him Bishop of Bangued on January 5, 2007. He received episcopal consecration on March 26, 2007, from Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, with Archbishop Fernando Filoni and Bishop Artemio Lomboy Rillera as co-consecrators, at the Shrine of Jesus the Divine Word in Quezon City, and was installed on March 31, 2007.
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass by Bishop Jaucian in Bangued was found in the searches listed.
His public record in the window is the April 2025 peace call, not a liturgical act; nothing found here is coded as a governing act on the 1962 Missal.