he diocese of Nueva Caceres has as Bishop Don Fray Arsenio del Campo,
of the Order of St. Augustine, who took possession of his see June 3,
1888. Although it, like the dioceses of Cebu, Jaro, and Nueva Segovia,
has no cabildo, nevertheless there is a cathedral church in Nueva
Caceres, an ecclesiastical court, a conciliar seminary in charge of
the Paulist fathers, and a leper hospital. The bishopric of Nueva
Caceres has 107 parishes, 17 parish missions, 124 parish priests or
missionaries, and 148 native priests.

The present bishop of Nueva Segovia is Don Fray Jose Hevia Campomanes,
a religious of the Order of St. Dominic--who is most fluent in the
Tagal language, and had been, for many years before, parish priest
of Binondo, which parish he enriched with a fine cemetery. He took
possession of his see June 19, 1890, but was made a prisoner at the
outbreak of the revolution; and he still lies, as these lines are
penned, under the heavy chains of captivity, and not always treated
as his holy character, his authority, and his personal qualities
merit. [154] The diocese of Nueva Segovia has 110 parishes, 26 parish
missions, 35 active missions, 171 parish priests or missionaries, and
131 native priests. The ecclesiastical court resides in Vigan, where
there is also a cathedral church; and a conciliar seminary which has
been, until the present, directed by the religious of St. Augustine.

Condition of the religious corporations

The corporation of calced Augustinian fathers owned, before the
revolutionary movement, the magnificent convent and church of San
Agustin in Manila, and those of Cebu and Guadalupe, and the orphan
asylums of Tambobong and Mandaloyan; and in Espana the colleges
of Valladolid, Palma de Mallorca, and Santa Maria de la Vid,
with the royal monastery of the Escorial, and the hospitium of
Barcelona--besides a mission in China. Its total number of religious
was 644.

The corporation of Augustinian Recollect fathers owned (also before
the war) in Filipinas their convent and church of Manila, together with
those of Cavite, San Sebastian, and Cebu, and the house and estate of
Imus; and in Espana the colleges of Monteagudo, of Marcilla, and of San
Millan de la Cogulla--the total number of their religious being 522.

The religious of the Order of St. Francis possess in the Filipinas
their convent and church of Manila, that of San Francisco del Monte,
the hospital of San Lazaro, the church of the venerable