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LIPA CITY – God’s blessings continue to pour down on the Ecclesiastical Province of Lipa as one of its priests is set to be ordained bishop on March 13 at the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Sebastian in this city and to serve as ordinary pastor within the same metropolitan. Rev. Fr. Marcelino Antonio M. Maralit, Jr., more popularly called “Fr. Junie”, who until his election was a parish priest of Alitagtag, Batangas, will be ordained bishop for the vacant see of the Diocese of Boac (Marinduque). Bishop-elect Junie Maralit was named bishop of Boac last December 31, 2014 and will succeed a fellow Batangueno bishop, His Excellency Reynaldo G. Evangelista, D.D., who was transferred to the Diocese of Imus (Cavite). The new bishop will be installed in his diocese on March 17. Bishop Junie Maralit was born in Lipa City to Marcelino Sr. and Bernardita Maralit, a former director of DTI Region IV. He
finished his primary elementary education in Canossa Academy but completed his elementary education in De La Salle Lipa. In 1981, he entered St. Francis de Sales Minor Seminary then proceeded to the Major Seminary where he finished his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. In 1989, he was sent to the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain where he finished his Theology in 1994. After his sacerdotal ordination in 1995, he was assigned as parochial vicar in Immaculate Conception Parish, Bauan, Batangas for over a year. He was also assigned professor at St. Francis de Sales Major Seminary till 1999, after which he was sent to Rome for his graduate studies in Church History at the Gregorian University in Rome. Upon his return in 2003, he was assigned to the newly-opened St. Francis de Sales Theological Seminary as Vice-Rector, and was given charge of the construction of the seminary and eventually became its rector in 2009, a post he held till 2013 when he was assigned pastor of Alitagtag parish.
BISHOP-ELECT JUNIE MARALIT
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