His Eminence Orlando B. Quevedo O.M.I, D.D. |
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Cardinal, Archbishop of Cotabato | |
Orlando Quevedo
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Province | Cotabato |
See | Cotabato |
Installed | 30 May 1998 |
Predecessor | Philip Francis Smith, O.M.I (†) |
Successor | incumbent |
Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria "Regina Mundi" a Torre Spaccata |
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Ordination | June 5, 1964 |
Consecration | November 15, 1982 by Bruno Torpigliani |
Created Cardinal | February 22, 2014 by Pope Francis |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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Born |
Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Commonwealth of the Philippines |
11 March 1939
Motto | "Caritas congaudet veritati (Love rejoices in the truth)" |
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Ordination history of Orlando Quevedo | |
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Priestly ordination
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Date of ordination | 5 June 1964 |
Episcopal consecration
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Principal consecrator | Bruno Torpigliani |
Co-consecrators |
Philip Francis Smith, OMI Federico O. Escaler, SJ |
Date of consecration | 28 October 1980 |
Cardinalate
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Elevated by | Pope Francis |
Date of elevation | 22 February 2014 |
Bishops consecrated by Orlando Quevedo as principal consecrator
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Jose Colin Mendoza Bagaforo | 25 April 2006 |
Styles of Orlando B. Quevedo |
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Reference style | His Eminence |
Spoken style | Your Eminence |
Informal style | Cardinal |
Orlando Beltran Quevedo (born 11 March 1939) is a Filipino Cardinal and the current Archbishop of Cotabato. On January 12, 2014, Pope Francis named him as one of 19 new cardinals of the Catholic Church. He was created a cardinal in the consistory of February 22, 2014.
Orlando Beltran Quevedo was born on March 11, 1939, in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. Beginning in 1945, he attended grades 1 to 3 in Laoag Shamrock School, and finished grades 4 to 6 in Marbel Central Elementary School in Marbel, South Cotabato, graduating in 1950. He attended Notre Dame High School in Marbel from 1950 to 1954.
Quevedo studied at San José Seminary from 1954 to 1956, but spent his novitiate in St. Peter's Novitiate in Mission, Texas. He earned his degree in Philosophy from San José Seminary in 1960, and in 1964 received his S.T.B. and MA in Religious Education from Oblate College (Catholic University of America) in Washington, D.C.. He was ordained a priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on June 5, 1964.
In 1964, he was assigned assistant parish priest of Cotabato Cathedral,
Quevedo was appointed Bishop-Prelate of Kidapawan by Pope John Paul II on October 28, 1980. Upon the prelature's elevation to diocese, he assumed the title Bishop of Kidapawan.
On March 22, 1986, he was named Archbishop of Nueva Segovia in Ilocos Sur, and on May 30, 1998, he was named Archbishop of Cotabato.