The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotabato is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. Cotabato is the Archdiocese in the Province of cotabato, on the island of Mindanao.

History

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotabato was carved out from the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro as the Diocese of Cotabato. It was erected on 11 August 1950 for the three provinces of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao. The Diocese of Marbel and the Diocese of Kidapawan are its suffragans. On 5 November 1979, Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

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 elevated the Diocese of Cotabato into an Archdiocese.

Suffragan dioceses

• Diocese of Kidapawan
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Kidapawan
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kidapawan is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines....
  
  
• Diocese of Marbel
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Marbel
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Marbel is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines....
  
  

Address

The office of the Archdiocese of Cotabato is currently located at Archbishop's Palace, P.O. Box 186, 158 Sinsuat Ave., Rosary Heights, 9600 Cotabato City, Maguindanao, Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao, Philippines.

Prelates

• Current Archbishop is Most Rev. Orlando Beltran Quevedo, O.M.I..
  • Date of Birth: March 11, 1939
  • Place of Birth: Laoag, Ilocos Norte
  • Sacerdotal Ordination: June 5, 1964 – Washington, DC, USA
  • Episcopal Ordination: October 28, 1980 – Kidapawan, Cotabato
  • Appointments: July 23, 1980 – Appointed Bishop of the Prelature of Kidapawan
  • March 22, 1986 – Appointed Archbishop of Nueva Segovia:
  • May 30, 1998 – Appointed Archbishop of Cotabato

• Auxiliary Bishop is Jose Colin Mendoza Bagaforo
  • Born on 30 Jan 1954 in Cotabato City
  • Ordained as priest of the Diocesan Clergy of Cotabato at age 26 last 25 Mar 1980
  • Appointed as bishop and titular bishop of Vazari-Dida on 2 Feb 2006
  • Ordained bishop at age 52 on 25 Apr 2006 in Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Cotabato City

Men

• Oblates of Mary Immaculate
• Society of Mary
  Society of Mary (Marists)
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   or Marist Fathers
• Little Brothers of Mary or Marist Brothers
  Marist Brothers
  The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...
  
  

Women

• Oblates of Notre Dame
  Oblates of Notre Dame
  The Oblates of Notre Dame is a religious congregation based in Cotabato City, Philippines.Founded November 10, 1956 in Cotabato City, by two missionaries of Oblates of Mary Immaculate who came to Manila in 1939: Fathers George Dion and Gerard Mongeau....
  
  
• Religious of the Virgin Mary
  Religious of the Virgin Mary
  The Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary is a ecclesiastical community of vowed religious Roman Catholic women of pontifical right and approval founded in Manila, Philippines. The community was founded in 1684 by Venerable Mother Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, a Filipino Roman Catholic...
  
  
• Siervas de la Nuestra Senora dela Paz
  Siervas de la Nuestra Senora dela Paz
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• Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena
• Religious des Notre Dame de Missions
• Carmelite Sisters of Charity-Vedruna
• Associates of Notre Dame
• Xaverian Missionaries of Christ Jesus with missions in Pastoral and Social Services in the Sanitarium and Provincial Jail in Cotabato and in Langgal,Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat Province.