The Most Reverend James Hayes SJ |
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Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro | |
Portrait of Hayes
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Province | Ecclesiastical Province of Cagayan de Oro |
See | Cagayan de Oro |
Installed | 29 June 1951 |
Term ended | 13 October 1970 |
Predecessor | Inaugural holder First Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro also, First Bishop of Cagayan de Oro |
Successor | Patrick Cronin |
Other posts | Founder, Xavier University Founder, Lourdes College |
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Ordination | 29 June 1921 |
Consecration | 18 June 1933 by Patrick Joseph Hayes |
Personal details | |
Birth name | James Thomas Gibbons Hayes |
Born | 11 February 1889 New York City, U.S. |
Died | 28 March 1980 Cagayan de Oro, Philippines |
(aged 91)
Buried | Saint Augustine Metropolitan Cathedral in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines |
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
Previous post |
Bishop of Cagayan de Oro; Provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines |
Alma mater | in Maryland, U.S. |
Styles of James T. G. Hayes |
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Reference style | The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Archbishop |
James T. G. Hayes (11 February 1889 – 28 March 1980) SJ was an American, Roman Catholic, Jesuit archbishop and missionary who served as the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines.
Born James Thomas Gibbons Hayes on 11 February 1889 in New York City, New York, United States. He attended the St. Francis Xavier College in New York City and in Maryland. He also studied in Tronchiennes, Belgium.
He started a career as a teacher, teaching at Regis High School in New York City. From 1918 to 1919, he taught the Classics at the Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He then served as Dean of Discipline at Fordham University from 1923 to 1925.
In 1907, Hayes entered the Society of Jesus. On 29 June 1921, he was ordained priest. He moved to the Philippines to do missionary work in 1926. A year after, he already started serving as the Superior of the Jesuits in Mindanao. By 1930, he became Superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines, a position he held until 1933.