With plans for a split, who will shepherd Asia’s biggest archdiocese?

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With plans for a split, who will shepherd Asia’s biggest archdiocese?

Plans to split the Archdiocese of Cebu into three smaller dioceses have hit delays, leaving the four million Catholics in the archdiocese uncertain about the future of their local Church, more than a year after the Philippines’ bishops’ conference approved a plan to see Asia’s largest diocese become three smaller ones.A Filipino Catholic at prayer in the Archdiocese of Cebu. Courtesy photo.And as Cebu’s Archbishop Jose Palma reaches the retireme…