Rex Andrew Clement Alarcon
Rex Andrew Clement Alarcon was born August 6, 1970, in Daet, Camarines Norte. He was educated at Naga Parochial School and Holy Rosary Minor Seminary, Naga City, studied theology at the University of Santo Tomas Central Seminary in Manila, and earned a licentiate in church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1999–2001).
He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Caceres on November 9, 1996, at the Basilica Minore of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, Naga City, by Leonardo Z. Legaspi. He served as parish vicar at St. John the Evangelist, Naga, as secretary to the archbishop, as teacher and formator at Holy Rosary Minor Seminary, as director of the Stewardship Program, and as superintendent of Naga Parochial School and of Catholic schools in the archdiocese.
He was appointed Bishop of Daet on January 2, 2019, consecrated on March 19, 2019, and installed on March 20, 2019. He was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Caceres on February 22, 2024, and installed on May 2, 2024, succeeding Rolando Tirona. He served as Chairman of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Youth (2019–2025) and as President of the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP).
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass naming Archbishop Alarcon, in Daet or in Caceres, was found. No diocesan Traditional Latin Mass site in either diocese was evidenced either before or after July 16, 2021.
He is not to be confused with Manolo Alarcon de los Santos, Bishop of Virac (1994–2024), whose name appears in several Bicol-area Traditional Latin Mass records.