Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao

Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao (born April 7, 1960) is a Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the third and current Bishop of Bayombong since 2018.

Biography Mangalinao was born in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija on April 7, 1960. He studied theology at the San Carlos Seminary in Makati; among his classmates were Archbishops Socrates Villegas and Florentino Lavarias. He was ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Cabanatuan on October 15, 1985. He served as spiritual director at the Maria Assumpta Seminary in Cabanatuan and was concurrent Parish Priest at the Saint Isidore the Worker Parish in Talavera until 1993. In 1995, he obtained a licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University after two years studying in Rome.

After returning to the Philippines, he served as Parish Priest in Gapan and became Vicar General and member of the College of Consultors in 2006. He became Parish Priest of Cabanatuan Cathedral from 2008 to 2014. In 2014, he was also appointed as President of the College of the Immaculate Conception in Cabanatuan. In 2016 he was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Urusi and Auxiliary Bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen–Dagupan.

On May 24, 2018, he was appointed by Pope Francis to become Bishop of Bayombong. He was a former chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education.

Activism On April 22, 2024, he led the Diocese and other environmental groups in filing a legal petition calling for the closure of the OceanaGold mining concession in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, which was also supported by the provincial government and other organizations.

Health In September 2022, Mangalinao successfully underwent coronary angioplasty in a Los Angeles hospital after a myocardial infarction. In February 2023, he also underwent a quintuple heart-bypass surgery at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan, Metro Manila.