Napoleon Balili Sipalay Jr
Napoleon Balili Sipalay Jr. was born October 20, 1970, in Davao City. After initially taking up Medical Technology at the University of Santo Tomas, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1988 and made his first profession in 1991. He studied philosophy at the Philippine Dominican Center of Institutional Studies in 1992, earned his bachelor's degree in sacred theology in 1995 and completed his licentiate in 1997, and was ordained a priest on April 5, 1997. His episcopal motto is misericordiam Dei et vestram, 'God's mercy and yours'.
He served as Assistant Master of Students and Novice Master, then as a missionary in Sri Lanka from 2006 to 2015, teaching at the National Seminary of Our Lady of Lanka in Kandy and serving from 2009 to 2015 as secretary of the Committee for Religious Formation of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Sri Lanka. He served as prior of the Priory of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Manaoag, then as prior provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines and UST Vice Chancellor from 2016 to 2021, and from 2021 as Vice Rector of the UST Central Seminary.
Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Alaminos on January 28, 2024, after a four-year sede vacante, succeeding Ricardo Baccay. He was consecrated on March 18, 2024, by Archbishop Socrates Villegas, with Bishop Jacinto Jose and Auxiliary Bishop Fidelis Layog as co-consecrators, and installed on March 19, 2024, at St. Joseph the Patriarch Cathedral in Alaminos. He is the first Dominican bishop in the Philippines in three decades and the third Filipino Dominican elevated to the episcopate, after Leonardo Legaspi and Jose Salazar.
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass by Bishop Sipalay in Alaminos was found in the searches listed.
His public record in the window is his installation and first years as ordinary, not a liturgical act; nothing found here is coded as a governing act on the 1962 Missal.