He currently serves as vicar general and chancellor of the Diocese of San José, and as pastor of St. Elizabeth of Portugal parish in Milpitas, California. Father Ligot was ordained on June 14, 1992, for the Diocese of Laoag, Philippines. He was incardinated into the Diocese of San José on March 30, 2004. In the 1999, with permission form his bishop in Laoag, Ligot started serving in California. He served in the tribunal for the Diocese of San José as defender of the bond (1999-2000), and judge (2000-2003).