By Leslie Ann Aquino  Lipa Archbishop Gilbert Garcera has issued a decree dissolving the “Family of the Immaculate Mediatrix of All Graces and of St. Francis” as a public association in the archdiocese. Archbishop Gilbert A. Garcera (San Sebastian Cathedral Lipa City - Archdiocese of Lipa / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The prelate issued the decree on February 26. According to a CBCP News post, Garcera said it is “impossible” for him to supervise an association whose members are scattered in the Philippines and abroad “for not being manageably within the reach.” He said that the major presence of foreigners also made the archdiocese “ill-equipped” to form them “indigenously”. The continued existence of the association could also be “an occasion for disturbance, albeit unintended by us, in the internal life of the Pontifical Institute of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate”. Citing the said grounds and after consultation with other church authorities, Garcera decided to “suppress” the public association of the faithful. Erected in June 2014, the association was formerly known as the “Franciscans of the Immaculate Conception”, whose 17 founding members were seminarians from five countries, mostly from Italy. They were, however, spread out in the Archdiocese of Lipa and in Viterbo and Pisa, both in Italy.