OSV News
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Andres “Andy” C. Ligot as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California.
The appointment was announced Aug. 29 in Washington by Msgr. Veceslav Tumir, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature, in the temporary absence of Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
The bishop-designate is a priest of the Diocese of San Jose and currently serves as vicar general and chancellor of the diocese and as pastor of St. Elizabeth of Portugal Parish in Milpitas, California.
Bishop-designate Ligot, 59, comes from Laoag City, Philippines. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1992, for the Diocese of Laoag and was incardinated into the Diocese of San Jose on March 30, 2004.
He speaks Tagalog, Ilocano, Spanish and English.
Bishop-designate Ligot’s assignments after ordination include diocesan and national roles in the Philippines, including parochial vicar at St. Andrew Parish in Bacarra Ilocos Norte early in his priesthood.
In 1999, Bishop-designate Ligot was given permission by his bishop in Laoag to minister in California, and he served as a chaplain at the Veterans Medical Center in San Francisco and as a visiting priest at Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park.
Bishop-designate Ligot has been pastor of St. Elizabeth of Portugal Parish in Milpitas since 2021, and vicar general and chancellor of the Diocese of San Jose since 2023.
The Diocese of San Jose comprises 1,300 square miles in California and has a population of just over 1.9 million, of whom 513,000 are Catholic.