Wreath-laying ceremony in conjunction with the celebration of the 174th birth anniversary of Bishop Jorge Alfonso Imperial Barlin Facts about Jorge Barlin: He was born April 23, 1850, in Baao, Camarines Sur, the Philippines to Mateo Alfonso BarlĂn and Francisca Imperial. He was ordained a priest on September 19, 1875, and consecrated a bishop on June 29, 1906, by Archbishop Ambrose Agius along with co-consecrators Archbishop Jeremiah James Harty and Bishop Frederick Zadok Rooker. "BarlĂn proved very capable and loyal, dealing a blow to the schismatic Iglesia Filipina Independiente by resisting its recruitment efforts and winning a court battle over church property," according to Catholic Bishops Conference ofâŠ