Antonio C. Delgado

Antonio C. Delgado
Philippines Ambassador to the Vatican
In office 1982–1988

Antonio Concepcion Delgado (December 21, 1917 - December 7, 1992) was a prominent industrialist and civic leader who was appointed Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican.

Antonio Delgado was born in San Pablo, Laguna, the fourth of eight children of Jose Maria Delgado (the first Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican) and Felisa Concepcion.

Antonio graduated valedictorian in high school at San Beda College in 1933, and took his Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering, magna cum laude, at the University of Santo Tomas in 1937. He saw action with the Philippine Army and as a guerrilla during World War II. He married Nellie Chuidian in 1944 and they had four children, namely Jose Roberto, Lolita, Jose Antonio, and Jose Eduardo.

On July 28, 1963, Jose Antonio died with the entire Philippine contingent to the 11th World Scout Jamboree in Marathon, Greece - 19 other Boy Scouts, 3 Scoutmasters and Chaplain - when their plane crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Bombay, India. His parents set up the Jose Antonio Delgado Memorial Foundation, Inc. (a.k.a. the Ala-Ala Foundation) with the insurance money.

In 1946, Delgado founded ACD, Inc., and in 1949 he established Delgado Brothers, Inc. and transformed it into the largest fully integrated transportation company in the Philippines. He founded eight other companies:

In the 1950s and 1960s, Delgado became director of:

In the 1960s, Delgado was elected to:

Delgado received awards from various organizations: In 1954 ACD was named Employer of the Year and in 1959 he was named Business Executive of the Year of the Business Writers Association of the Philippines.

At fifteen, Delgado was a member of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines contingent to the 4th World Scout Jamboree in Gödöllő, Hungary in 1933; 35 years later, he became President of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. At the 1971 World Scout Conference in Tokyo, Japan, he became the first Asian to be elected Chairman of the World Scout Committee.

The Boy Scouts of the Philippines claims that Delgado conceived the World Scout Emblem during his stint as the first Asian World Scout Committee chairman from 1971 to 1973,[1] however the design was introduced at the 8th World Scout Jamboree in 1955, based on a 1939 earlier design by J. S. Wilson.

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