Severo Cagatan Caermare

Severo Cagatan Caermare was born on October 22, 1969, in Poblacion, Sibutad, Zamboanga del Norte; Vatican Radio and the roster agree on the date and place. He studied philosophy at Cor Jesu Seminary and St. Vincent College in Dipolog, and theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Cagayan de Oro, earning a Master's in Theology and Pastoral Ministry. He was ordained a priest on April 22, 1996; Vatican Radio governs the day, and Wikipedia's body agrees on April 22 at Saint Anne Parish in Sibutad, citing a now-dead-link La Salle Ozamiz profile, while its infobox gives the wrong day, April 12, 1996. The ordaining bishop, Jose Manguiran, is infobox-only and is not named. His priestly posts, in Vatican Radio's broad strokes, with Wikipedia's finer split flagged: administrator of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish, Godod, from 1996 to 1997; trainer at Cor Jesu Seminary from 1997 to 2002, which Wikipedia splits into formator, professor, vocation director, procurator, spiritual director, and diocesan liturgist from 1997 to 2000; administrator of St. Isidore Parish, Gutalac, from 2002 to 2003; trainer at St. Mary's Theologate Seminary, Ozamiz City, from 2003 to 2004; rector, liturgist, and professor at Cor Jesu from 2004 to 2006; trainer, professor, and dean of studies at St. Mary's from 2006 to 2007; rector and professor at St. Mary's from 2007 to 2013, a range Vatican Radio misprints a second time as 2003-2004, which is not repeated; at San Antonio de Padua Parish, Gulayon, from 2013; and rector of Dipolog Cathedral of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary from May 1, 2014.

On July 25, 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Dipolog, accepting the resignation of Jose R. Manguiran under canon 401 section 1; he is the third bishop of Dipolog. He was consecrated on October 30, 2014, matching the roster row; the consecration's principals and venue, Pinto, Cabantan, and Manguiran at Dipolog Cathedral, are Wikipedia-body-only, citing a Vatican Radio piece that predates the ordination and cannot confirm consecrators, so no principals are named. Manguiran, appointed May 27, 1987, retired July 25, 2014; the sede vacante ran July 26 to October 29, 2014, with Manguiran as diocesan administrator, per the Dipolog ordinaries table. Caermare is the first bishop ordained from the Diocese of Dipolog itself. His motto, 'Benedicam dominum semper', is Wikipedia-only and is not shipped. After the death of Iligan bishop Elenito Galido on December 5, 2017, at age 64 of cirrhosis in an Iligan City hospital, Caermare was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Iligan, overseeing the diocese, in the CBCP website's words, 'until Pope Francis elects a new bishop'; he administered Iligan concurrently with Dipolog until Rapadas's installation on September 5, 2019. The administrator from-date, December 6, 2017, rests on a Philippine News Agency snippet, the Wikipedia body, and the Iligan ordinaries table's December 6 vacancy start, not on an opened page, and is flagged as such. He assumed the two-year chairmanship of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on the Laity on December 15, 2023, succeeding the late Enrique Macaraeg of Tarlac; that role rests on Wikipedia citing CBCP News and is bio context, not a diocesan act.

In the window, no governing act of his own concerning the 1962 Missal was found. His window record is a canonization-cause anniversary, not liturgical governance: in February 2026 he presided at the Mass marking the 378th anniversary of the martyrdom of Fr. Francesco Palliola, S.J., killed January 29, 1648, at age 35, in Jose Dalman, concelebrated by Jesuit priests from Zamboanga and Cagayan de Oro and diocesan clergy, at which the diocese announced progress on the Positio Historica, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints having completed its review, with six historians, five affirmative and one affirmative ad mentem, no negative or suspensive vote, postulator Fr. Pascual Cebollada and diocesan postulator Fr. Patrick Dalangin, documentation begun in 2017 and validated in 2018. The piece carries no quotation of Caermare, so his quotations list is empty.