page_title: Honesto Ongtioco
section_title: Bishop (1998–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Honesto Ongtioco / Ministry / Bishop (1998–present)
caption_attribution_description: English: Barangay [1] Poblacion, beside Talisay, Balanga City, Bataan, Bataan Province Interior of the Diocesan Shrine and Cathedral Parish of Saint Joseph, Balanga City and its Category:Sacristy, Santuario, Columbarium, Parish Formation Center, Rectory and Convent (Balanga Cathedral) (along Capitol Drive, to Balanga City, Bataan National Road accessed from and along the Bataan Provincial Expressway also known as the Roman Expressway or the Roman Superhighway, connecting to Olongapo-Gapan Road).
context_page_description: Honesto Flores Ongtioco is a Filipino bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first and current Bishop of Cubao, and also served as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Malolos from May 12, 2018 to August 21, 2019. He had previously served as Bishop of Balanga as its second bishop.
context_section_description: Ongtioco was appointed as the second Bishop of Balanga on April 8, 1998 by Pope John Paul II and was installed on June 18 of that same year. On June 28, 2003, he was appointed as the first bishop of Cubao. Ongtioco was installed on August 28, 2003, the same day the new diocese was canonically erected.
  Due to the death of Bishop José F. Oliveros, the fourth bishop of Malolos, on May 11, 2018, Pope Francis appointed him as the Apostolic Administrator of the diocese on May 16, 2018. As per No. 244 of the Apostolorum Successores or Directory of Pastoral Ministry of Bishops, Ongtioco holds “all the faculties and rights to exercise the office of a diocesan bishop.”  He ceased being Apostolic Administrator of the diocese on August 21, 2019 upon the installation of Dennis Cabanada Villarojo, the fifth bishop of Malolos.
  On July 19, 2019, the PNP–Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed charges against Ongtioco and members of the opposition for "sedition, cyber libel, libel, estafa, harboring a criminal, and obstruction of justice".
caption: His coat of arms as Bishop of Balanga.
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