Ramón Cabrera Argüelles

Ramón Cabrera Argüelles, 2016

Ramón Cabrera Argüelles (born November 12, 1944 in Batangas City ) is a Filipino clergyman and emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lipa .

Life

Ramón Cabrera Argüelles was ordained a priest on December 21, 1969 .

Pope John Paul II appointed him on November 26, 1993 titular bishop of Ros Cré and auxiliary bishop in Manila . The Pope personally donated his episcopal ordination during his visit to the Philippines on January 17, 1994; Co-consecrators were Archbishops of the Curia Giovanni Battista Re , substitute for the State Secretariat , and Josip Uhač , Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples .

On August 25, 1995, he was appointed Military Bishop of the Philippines. He was appointed Archbishop of Lipa on May 14, 2004 and was introduced to the office on July 16 of the same year.

After the future President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, announced during the presidential election campaign that he was planning to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines after his election and that he intends to use it rigorously, Ramón Cabrera Argüelles' statement in May 2016 caused a sensation that he might want to replace himself of death row criminals voluntarily executed.

Cabrera Argüelles is a traditionalist within the church . Due to the canonically illegal takeover in a spiritual institute under episcopal law founded in his diocese in 2013 , he had refuge from the Italian monasteries of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, followers of the Italian order founder Stefano Manelli, who was deposed by the Vatican for abuses and scandals and was banned from contact granted. In April 2016, the Pope revoked the establishment of such institutes without Vatican permission. A few months before his dismissal, Argüelles had applied to be allowed to ordain priestly members of the abolished community, including some religious from the Franciscan order founded by Manelli who had not been legally dismissed from their home institute . The motion led to an intervention by the Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin , which ended with the archbishop's premature resignation.

Pope Francis accepted his early resignation on February 2, 2017. The previous Bishop of Daet , Gilbert A. Garcera , was appointed as his successor .

Web links

Entry for Ramón Cabrera Argüelles on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

^ Announcement of the initiative against the death penalty from May 21, 2016; accessed on February 5, 2017.
^ Francesco Antonio Grana: Via il vescovo tradizionalista che proteggeva padre Manelli. ( Memento of February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Faro di Roma , February 3, 2017; Retrieved February 5, 2017 (Italian).
^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Lipa (Filippine) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , February 2, 2017, accessed February 2, 2017 (Italian).

predecessor	Office	successor
Severino Pelayo	Military Bishop of the Philippines 1995-2004	Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumulak
Gaudencio Borbon Rosales	Archbishop of Lipa 2004-2017	Gilbert Garcera

personal data
SURNAME	Cabrera Argüelles, Ramón
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Argüelles, Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Filipino clergyman, emeritus Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lipa
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Batangas City

[1] Announcement of the initiative against the death penalty from May 21, 2016; accessed on February 5, 2017.

[2] Francesco Antonio Grana: Via il vescovo tradizionalista che proteggeva padre Manelli. ( Memento of February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Faro di Roma , February 3, 2017; Retrieved February 5, 2017 (Italian).

[3] Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Lipa (Filippine) e nomina del successore. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , February 2, 2017, accessed February 2, 2017 (Italian).