(UPDATE) Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Jose Advincula of Capiz as the new archbishop of Manila, ending a yearlong vacancy, the Manila Cathedral said Thursday.
The 68-year-old Advincula succeeds Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, who has been the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in the Vatican since February 2020.
"The bells of the Manila Cathedral continuously toll in celebration of the appointment of His Eminence Jose F. Cardinal Advincula as the new Archbishop of Manila after more than a year of being Sede Vacante (the seat being vacant)," the Manila Cathedral said in a Facebook post.
Before Tagle, the Archdiocese of Manila was headed by Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales and Jaime Cardinal Sin, under whose watch the Church took an active role in politics in the 1980s.
Bishop Broderick Pabillo was apostolic caretaker of Manila before Advincula's appointment.
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Advincula, the first cardinal from Capiz, is the 33rd to lead the archdiocese of Manila after it was left under the care of Archbishop Broderick Pabillo for over a year since Tagle left.
It was only last year that Pope Francis elevated Advincula as a cardinal or "prince of the Church."