Bishop of Catarman
Bishop Nolly Camingue Buco was born in Baganga, Davao Oriental, on 27 November 1963. He carried out his studies in philosophy at the Sacred Heart Seminary in Palo, Leyte, and in theology at the Immaculate Conception Major Seminary in Guiguinto, Bulacan. He was ordained a priest on 18 October 1993 for the diocese of Antipolo. After ordination, he held the offices of parish vicar of Saint Clement in Angono, Rzal (1993-1994), parish vicar of Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo City (1994-1997), member of the Presbyteral Council (1996), member of the College of Consultors (1997), priest chargé at San Isidro Labrador in Antipolo Hills, Antipolo City, assistant coordinator for the Commission for Catechesis (1998), assistant judicial vicar of the Court of First Instance (2000), parish priest of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary in Montalban, Rizal (2000-2003), and Defender of the Bond at the Court of First Instance (2001). After receiving a master’s degree in theological studies from the Immaculate Conception Major Seminary in Guiguinto, Bulacan (2002), he was coordinator of the Commission for the Seminary (2003). He was awarded a doctorate in anthropology from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City (2003), and went on to serve as bursar (2003) and rector (2003-2005) of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Seminary in Barangay San Luis, Antipolo City. Following a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas (2004), he went on to serve as judicial vicar at the Court of First Instance (2004), parish priest of San Antonio de Padua in San Antonio Village, Antipolo City (2005-2011), and parish priest of San Antonio de Padua in Kalumpang, Marikina City (2011-2016). In 2016 he received a doctorate in juridical sciences from San Beda College, Mendiola, Manila (2016), and held the role of parish priest of Our Lady of Light in Cainta, Rizal 2016-2018). He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Antipolo and titular of the see of Gemellae in Byzacena on 10 July 2018, and was consecrated on 8 September 2018. Since 8 December 2023 he has served as apostolic administrator of Catarman.