Alberto Ramento

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Alberto Baldovini Ramento (born August 9, 1936 in Guimba , Nueva Ecija ; † October 3, 2006 in Tarlac City ) was a Filipino bishop , human rights activist and martyr of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente .

Ramento was ordained a priest on April 28, 1958 in the Maria Clara Christ Church in Manila and in May 1969 as a bishop in the National Cathedral in Manila. In May 1993 Ramento succeeded Tito Edralin Pasco as the ninth Obispo Maximo ( Metropolitan ) of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and thus head of a church with over seven million church members. In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York . The laudation said: "... he is a fighter for human rights and a person who works for peace among peoples and nations." As chairman of the Bishops' Council of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente , Ramento condemned political repression and the murder of militant leaders , Judges, journalists, church people and innocent civilians under the government of the time.

After he had handed over the office of Obispo Maximo to his successor Tomas A. Millamena in 1999, he worked as a pastor in the parish of San Sebastian in Tarlac City . In 2000, he set up a church feeding program for Tarlac City street children to have food and a place to sleep in the church. He also gave the funeral address for Father William Tadena, who was murdered on the street in 2005.

On the morning of October 3, 2006, Bishop Ramento was found stabbed to death in the San Sebastian parish rectory. The police declared the crime a robbery, but Ramento's wife and children made it publicly clear that the bishop had long received death threats for criticizing the government.

Ramento was considered a "bishop of workers and fishermen".

On Sunday, October 3, 2010, the Old Catholic Church in Germany publicly commemorated the murdered bishop in a service in the Augustinian Church in Mainz. In the Independent Philippine Church and the Old Catholic Church , on October 3, he is commemorated as a saint .

literature

  • Franz Segbers , Peter-Ben Smit (ed.): Catholic in times of globalization. Memory of the martyr bishop Alberto Ramento, the bishop of the workers and peasants. Edition Exodus, Lucerne 2010, ISBN 978-3-905577-77-8 .
  • Franz Segbers: "... to the end of the earth." (Acts 1,8). Empire, Empire and the rediscovery of the catholicity of the churches. In: Marlene Crüsemann, Carsten Jochum-Bortfeld (Ed.): Christ and his siblings. Christology in the context of the Bible in righteous language. Gütersloh 2009, p. 241ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Franz Segbers: Neoliberal globalization and impunity. P. 1, see under web links.
  2. ↑ Franz Segbers: "... to the end of the earth." (Acts 1,8). Empire, Empire and the rediscovery of the catholicity of the churches . In: Marlene Crüsemann, Carsten Jochum-Bortfeld (Ed.): Christ and his siblings. Christology in the context of the Bible in righteous language. Gütersloh 2009, p. 241.
  3. ↑ Press release of the Old Catholic Church in Germany. September 28, 2010, accessed July 31, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Ramento, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramento, Alberto Baldovini (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino bishop
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Guimba
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 2006
Place of death Tarlac City