Manuel Cruz Sobreviñas (7 April 1924 – 18 July 2020) was a
Filipino prelate
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of the
Catholic Church
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.
Sobreviñas was born in Dinalupihan, Philippines and was ordained a priest on March 10, 1951. Sobreviñas was appointed auxiliary bishop of the
Archdiocese of Manila
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
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on April 7, 1979, as well as titular bishop of Tulana, and was consecrated on May 25, 1979. On February 25, 1993 he was appointed bishop to the
Diocese of Imus
The Diocese of Imus ( la, Dioecesis Imusensis; Tagalog: ''Diyosesis ng Imus''; Spanish and Chavacano: ''Diócesis de Imus'') is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Philippines that comprises the entire province of Cavite. The diocese was canonic ...
until retirement on October 22, 2001. He died on 18 July 2020 at Cardinal Santos Medical Center. At the time of his death, Sobreviñas was the oldest living Filipino bishop.
Oldest Filipino bishop dies at 96
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References
External links
Manila Archidocese
(Filipino)
1924 births
2020 deaths
People from San Juan, Metro Manila
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
Roman Catholic bishops of Imus
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