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7 unusual facts about Nueva Segovia


Palestinian Nicaraguan

The few Palestinians that managed to buy land for agriculture managed to do so mainly in the Sabana Grande area of the department of Nueva Segovia in northern Nicaragua.

Quilalí

Situated in a high mountainous region of Nicaragua lies Quilalí, the remote, large municipal head in the department of Nueva Segovia.

Rafel Toro

On July 25, 1927, Private Toro was on advance guard duty into Nueva Segovia.

Sanctuario de San Juan Evangelista

This Old Dagupan Church is a Shrine under a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines from the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

Rafael S. Magno, Jr., stated that Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia covers all Pangasinan parishes (whole of northern Luzon).

On February 16, 1963, Pope Paul VI decreed the formal reconstitution of the Diocese of Lingayen into an Archdiocese covering all of Pangasinan but severing Tarlac and Nueva Ecija, while the diocese of La Union was created and separated from Nueva Segovia becoming another suffragan of Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan from 1970.

Supreme Bishop

:- Ecclesiastical Governor of the Diocese of Nueva Segovia, (Roman Catholic Church).


Battle of Ocotal

In May 1927, United States Marine Corps Captain Gilbert D. Hatfield left Managua in command of forty-one marine officers and men with the intention of patrolling the Nueva Segovia area.

Miguel Gatan Purugganan

Pope Paul VI appointed him on 23 January 1971 to the Titular Bishop of Egnatia and ordered him to auxiliary bishop in Nueva Segovia.


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Miguel Gatan Purugganan

The Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Carmine Rocco gave him on 22 April of that year, the Episcopal ordination ; co-consecrators were Juan C. Sison, Archbishop of Nueva Segovia, and Teodulfo Sabugal Domingo, Bishop of Tuguegarao.