Orlando Beltran Quevedo (born 11 March 1939) is a

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prelate of the

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. A cardinal since 2014, he was Archbishop of Cotabato from 1998 to 2018. He became a bishop in 1980.

Early life

Orlando Beltran Quevedo was born on 11 March 1939, in

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. 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.

Priesthood

Quevedo studied at San José Seminary from 1954 to 1956, but spent his novitiate in St. Peter's Novitiate in

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. 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

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(Catholic University of America) in

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He was ordained a priest of the

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on 5 June 1964. In 1964, he was assigned assistant

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of Cotabato Cathedral,

Episcopacy

Quevedo was appointed Bishop-Prelate of Kidapawan by

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on 28 October 1980. Upon the prelature's elevation to diocese, he assumed the title Bishop of Kidapawan. On 22 March 1986, he was named Archbishop of Nueva Segovia in

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, and on 30 May 1998, he was named Archbishop of Cotabato.

Cardinal

On 12 January 2014, Pope Francis named Quevedo as one of 19 men to be inducted into the

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in the consistory of 22 February 2014, with the titular church of Santa Maria "Regina Mundi" a Torre Spaccata. He is the first cardinal from

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and, until his 80th birthday, the second Filipino cardinal-elector, along with

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. Pope Francis named him member in Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue. On 6 November 2018, Pope Francis accepted Quevedo's resignation as archbishop. Cardinal Quevedo ceased to be a cardinal-elector on his 80th birthday.

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