Chapter LVI

Bishopric of Nueva Segovia

663. The bishopric of Nueva Segovia is one of the suffragans of this archbishopric of Manila, and it was erected at the same time as the others and in the same circumstances. Its see is located in the village of Lalo. There lives the alcalde-mayor, while the village has an infantry presidio, and a convent of Dominican religious. It has its own provisor, cura, and sacristan for that holy church.

Jurisdiction of that bishopric

664. That bishopric which is called Cagayan includes under its jurisdiction the provinces of Pangasinan, from the point of Bolinao; Ylocos; and Cagayan, to and inclusive of Palanan on the opposite coast.

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