Mel Rey Mingoa Uy
Mel Rey Mingoa Uy was born January 6, 1968, in San Agustin, Romblon. He completed philosophical studies at St. Pius X Seminary in Roxas, Capiz, and theological studies at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, where he later received a master's degree in philosophy.
He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Romblon on May 24, 1994. As a priest of Romblon he served as spiritual director of San Lorenzo Seminary from 1995 to 1996, director of Holy Rosary Academy in San Agustin from 1995 to 2000, teacher at San Lorenzo Seminary and parish priest of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Carmen, San Agustin, from 1998 to 2004, parish priest of St. Anthony de Padua in Agnipa and diocesan chancellor from 2004 to 2009, director of the Diocesan Commission on Liturgy from 1999, and, from 2010, diocesan economist (bursar), director of the Diocesan Pastoral Secretariat, and a Basic Ecclesial Community worker; as BEC director he organized the first diocesan BEC fellowship in Romblon. He held no prior episcopal tenure; he was appointed Bishop of Lucena straight from the Romblon diocesan economist post.
Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Lucena on July 29, 2017, succeeding Emilio Z. Marquez, who retired after 14 years, as the diocese's fifth bishop. He was consecrated and installed on November 8, 2017, with Cardinal Jose Advincula as consecrator. That installation date and consecrator rest on Wikipedia alone; no diocesan or CBCP installation article was found, and the gap is recorded here rather than hidden.
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass by Bishop Uy in Lucena was found in the searches listed.
The CBCP's collective July 22, 2021 statement supporting Traditionis custodes is a conference act, not his. His public record in the window is the diocesan pastoral work, not a liturgical act.