Bishop of Mati
Bishop Abel Cahiles Apigo, Bishop of Mati, was born on May 21, 1968, in Calinan, Davao City, Philippines, in the Diocese of Davao. He studied at Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest for Davao on April 18, 1994. On February 10, 2018, he was appointed Bishop of Mati. He received episcopal ordination on April 24, 2018, at Davao City, with Romulo Geolina Valles as principal consecrator and Guillermo Dela Vega Afable and Julius Sullan Tonel as co-consecrators. He was installed as Bishop of Mati on April 25, 2018.