Jose Elmer Mangalinao

Jose Elmer Imas Mangalinao (born April 7, 1960) is a Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the third and current Bishop of Bayombong since 2018.

Biography
Mangalinao was born in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija on April 7, 1960. He studied theology at the San Carlos Seminary in Makati and was ordained as a priest on October 15, 1985. Working at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabanatuan, he served as spiritual director at the Maria Assunta Seminary in Cabanatuan and was concurrent parish proest at the Saint Isidore the Worker church in Talavera until 1993. In 1995, he obtained a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University after two years studying in Rome.

After returning to the Philippines, he served as parish priest in Gapan and became vicar general and member of the college of consulters in 2006. He became parish priest of Cabanatuan Cathedral from 2008 to 2014. In 2014, he was also appointed as Dean of the College of the Immaculate Conception in Cabanatuan. In 2016 he was consecrated as titular bishop of Urusi and auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen–Dagupan.

On May 24, 2018 he was appointed by Pope Francis to become Bishop of Bayombong.

Activism
On April 22, 2024, he led the Diocese and other environmental groups in filing a legal petition calling for the closure of the OceanaGold mining concession in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, which was also supported by the provincial government and other organizations.