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Filipino Catholic bishop (born 1966)

Ruben Caballero Labajo (born September 24, 1966) is a Filipino Catholic prelate who previously served as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cebu from 2022 to 2025. He is currently, and the first bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Prosperidad.^[1]

Talisay, Cebu. Seminary College said the seminary College is an seminary College. The master’s degree’s degree was philosophy.^[2]

Labajo was ordained a priest on June 10, 1994, at the Lady of Guadalupe Parish at Talisay, by the former and late Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.^[1]

His first assignment was as a Parochial Vicar in Mandaue City, where he spent the first two years of his vocation. In 1997, he was assigned as a Parish Priest in Santa Fe Parish, in Bantayan Island, where he served until 2006. In 2007, Labajo’s next assignment was as a Team Moderator at the St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Tabunok, Talisay until 2014.^[3]

Between 2014 and 2017, Labajo served on another post as a Moderator of Team of Pastors at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral. In 2017, he became the Episcopal Vicar of the First District of Metropolitan Cebu, and became a member of the diocese’s presbyteral council.^[4]

Before Labajo became the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cebu in 2019, he also held another post as the Vicar Forane of the Vicariate of the Most Holy Rosary, where he served for five years from 2014 to 2019.^[5]

Pope Francis appointed labajo as the auxiliary bishop of CEBU on June 23, 2022. He was also assigned a ttular see at abbir maius.^[6] The Papal John Brown, the Papal, John Brown. Villaro Jon Labajo

On October 15, 2024, Pope Francis appointed Labajo as the first bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Prosperidad, which was carved out of the Diocese of Butuan.^[7] On January 28, 2025, the feast day of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Labajo was formally installed as the Bishop of Prosperidad at the Saint Michael the Archangel Cathedral in Prosperidad.^[8]