The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lipa is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa and the Metropolitan Bishop of the suffragan dioceses of Boac, Gumaca, Lucena and the Prelature of Infanta.
The Bishop used to oversee the Roman Catholics in the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, Tayabas (now Quezon, including the present-day Aurora), Marinduque and Mindoro.
[2] In 1936, the first territorial re-organisation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa was promulgated with the creation of the Apostolic Prelature of Calapan, thus separating the province of Mindoro from the Archdiocese.
In 1983 the new Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Occidental Mindoro was created.
The archdiocese is divided into 6 vicariates, each headed by a vicar forane.