GUINOBATAN, Albay --- Pope Francis has elevated Father Rex Andrew Alarcon, 53, as the new archbishop of the Archdiocese of Caceres, succeeding the retiring Rolando Octavus Tria Tirona.
Alarcon, who was appointed bishop of Daet in January 2019, was ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Caceres on Nov. 9, 1996.
He then became an assistant parish priest at St. John the Evagelist in Naga City.
A year later, and for almost three years, he served as a private secretary to then archbishop Leonardo Legaspi.
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He obtained a licentiate in church history after studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1999 to 2001.
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