The Diocese of Pagadian has a new bishop in Bishop-Elect Most Rev. Ronald Anthony Parco Timoner of the Diocese of Daet. An alumnus of the Bachelor of Sacred Theology program of the Faculty of Theology and an alumnus of the Central Seminary, the new bishop was ordained priest in May 1997. He continued his academic formation under the Dominican Order with a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.
Most recently, Bishop-elect Timoner was diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Daet, where he also served in various capacities, such as Director of the Socio-Pastoral Action Center Foundation of Daet and parish priest of the Parroquia de San Juan Bautista.
The Diocese of Pagadian covers the City of Pagadian and twenty-one municipalities in the northern and eastern parts of Zamboanga del Sur. It was created on November 12, 1971 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga. Bishop-elect Timoner becomes the sixth bishop of Pagadian, succeeding Most Rev. Ronald Lunas, STL, DD, who passed away on January 2, 2024.
