About DEA

DEA is geographically enormous. It covers all of Mindanao and Visayas islands and partly Luzon, the Bicol Region. Mindanao is comprised of six (6) regions, Twenty-Seven (27) Provinces, Thirty-Three (33) cities, Four Hundred Twenty-Two (422) municipalities and Ten Thousand and Eighty Four (10,084) barangays. Visayas covered Three (3) regions, Sixteen (16) provinces, Thirty Nine (39) Cities, Three Hundred Sixty Nine (369) municipalities and Eleven Thousand Four Hundred Forty Four (11,444) barangays. On the other hand, Bicol region consists Six (6) provinces, Seven (7) cities, One Hundred Seven (107) municipalities and Three Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-One (3,471) barangays. Meanwhile, at present, the whole Davao Episcopal Area have only Two Hundred Four (204) local churches and Ninety-Four (94) Mission churches.