Jesse Mercado

{{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=December 2024}} {{BLP one source|date=December 2024}} {{Sources exist|date=December 2024}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Jesse Eugenio Mercado | honorific_suffix = D.D. | title = Bishop of Parañaque | image = | alt = | caption = Official Portrait of Most Rev. Jesse Mercado | see = Parañaque | appointed = December 7, 2002 | term_start = January 28, 2003 | term_end = | predecessor = | successor =  | ordination = March 19, 1977 | ordained_by = Jaime Sin | consecration = March 31, 1997 | consecrated_by = Jaime Sin | rank =  | birth_name = Jesse Eugenio Mercado | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|06|06|mf=y}} | birth_place = Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines | death_date = | death_place = | denomination = Roman Catholic | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Auxiliary Bishop of Manila (1997–2002)|Titular Bishop of Talaptula (1997–2002)}} | motto = {{lang|la|Confirma Fratres Tuos}}<br>('Strengthen your Brethren', {{Bibleverse|Luke|22:32}}) | coat_of_arms = Coat of Arms of Jesse Eugenio Mercado.svg }} {{infobox bishopstyles |name=Jesse Mercado |image=Coat of Arms of Jesse Eugenio Mercado.svg |image_size = 150px |dipstyle=The Most Reverend |offstyle=Your Excellency |relstyle=Bishop |deathstyle=not applicable }}

'''Jesse Eugenio Mercado''' (born June 6, 1951) is the first bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Parañaque.

==Early life and education== Mercado was born on June 6, 1951, in Santa Cruz, Manila, and grew up in Caloocan. He studied at St. Joseph School and completed his philosophical and theological formation at the Jesuit-run San Jose Seminary. From 1981 to 1984, he took his licentiate in theology at the Angelicum in Rome.

==Ministry== He was ordained to the priesthood on March 19, 1977, for the Archdiocese of Manila. There, he served as Assistant Parish Priest (1977) of San Isidro Labrador Parish in Pasay, Spiritual Director (1977–1979) at the San Pablo Regional Seminary in Baguio City, Director of the Pre-College Department of the San Carlos Seminary (1979–1981), Professor of Theology (1985–1988) at the San Carlos Seminary, Rector (1988–1994) of the Holy Apostles Senior Seminary, and Rector (1994–1997) of the Pontificio Collegio Filippino.

==Episcopate== Pope John Paul II named him as Titular Bishop of Talaptula and Auxiliary Bishop of Manila on February 25, 1997, and was ordained on March 31 of the same year.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=RINUNCE E NOMINE|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2002/12/07/0607/01933.html|access-date=April 17, 2021|website=press.vatican.va}}</ref> As Auxiliary Bishop, he was assigned as District Bishop for Pasay-Parañaque-Las Piñas-Muntinlupa (PPLM) District.

Pope John Paul II subsequently appointed him as the first and founding bishop of the Diocese of Parañaque on December 7, 2002, and formally installed on January 28, 2003.

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{{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef| before = Ramon Arguelles}} {{s-ttl | title = Rector of Pontificio Collegio Filippino| years = 1994–1997}} {{s-aft| after = Honesto Ongtioco}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl| title= Bishop of Parañaque | years=2002-present}} {{s-inc}} {{s-bef|before=Clément Fecteau}} {{s-ttl|title=Titular Bishop of Talaptula| years=1997–2002}} {{s-aft|after = Isabelo Caiban Abarquez}} {{s-end}} {{Roman Catholic Diocese of Parañaque}}

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