Jay Cayangyang
{{Short description|American Anglican bishop}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Jay Cayangyang
| title = Bishop Suffragan of the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
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| caption = Cayangyang at Bishop Seabury Church in 2021
| church = Anglican Church in North America
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| diocese = Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
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| term = 2025–present
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| consecration = June 21, 2025
| consecrated_by = Steve Wood
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| spouse = Linda Cayangyang
| children = 5
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Jerome Rosas "Jay" Cayangyang is an American Anglican bishop and U.S. Navy chaplain. Since 2025, he has been a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Church in North America's Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (JAFC).
Biography
Cayangyang grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where his father was stationed at Naval Station Mayport while serving on the USS Voge.{{cite news |last1=Sippel |first1=Jacob |title=New Command Chaplain Returns To Hometown |url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/military/2011/02/23/new-command-chaplain-returns-hometown/15913362007/ |access-date=23 June 2025 |work=Florida Times-Union |agency=Navy Public Affairs Support Element |date=February 23, 2011}} He was ordained as both deacon and priest in 1996 and has served in churches in California, Virginia and Florida.{{cite web |title=Leadership |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101000000*/https://www.bishopseabury.org/leadership |publisher=Bishop Seabury Anglican Church |access-date=23 June 2025}}
As a U.S. Navy Reserve chaplain, Cayangyang had numerous assignments including deployment with Marines during the Iraq War. In 2011, Cayangyang returned to Jacksonville as command chaplain at Naval Station Mayport. He also served as canon to the ordinary in the JAFC and as deputy chaplain of the Marine Corps for reserve matters.
In 2015, Cayangyang was appointed rector of Bishop Seabury Anglican Church in Gales Ferry, Connecticut. He was also archdeacon for the Northeast in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word. In 2025, Cayangyang's election as a suffragan bishop in the JAFC was confirmed.{{cite web |title=Bishops-Elect Consented to by College of Bishops |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/bishops-elect-consented-to-by-college-of-bishops/ |publisher=Anglican Church in North America |access-date=23 June 2025 |date=January 16, 2025}} He was consecrated and installed alongside Marshall MacClellan at during the JAFC convocation at Church of the Cross in Bluffton, South Carolina on June 21, 2025.{{cite web |title=Let’s welcome the newest Bishops (Bishop Jay Cayangyang and Bishop Marshall MacClellan, in front) in Christ’s one holy, catholic, and apostolic church. |url=https://www.facebook.com/ACNAChaplains/posts/pfbid0dHWxWvLUaouXpgMhvNsJuy4ghC35pQAS5yUbQKySyQJmYizZq9HJQsW7PVEWqR1Hl |website=Facebook |publisher=Anglican Chaplains |access-date=23 June 2025 |date=June 22, 2025}}
Personal life
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Category:21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States