Cardinal Quevedo celebrates 35th episcopal ordination

COTABATO CITY – His eminence Orlando Cardinal Beltran
Quevedo, OMI, DD, archbishop of Cotabato will celebrate his 35th Episcopal
Ordination on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 with a 5:30 a.m. Holy Mass at the
Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral (ICC), Cotabato City.

In the same occasion, he will bless the ICC
Mausoleum.

The archdiocese of Cotabato is inviting everyone who
wish to join the Cardinal as he celebrates his becoming a bishop.

Cardinal Quevedo, human rights defender and a known
peace advocate, was appointed sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Kidapawan Bishop-Prelate
of Kidapawan by sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II Pope John Paul II on
October 28, 1980. sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Quevedo#cite_note-rc-hierarchy-2 He
was also the first bishop of Kidapawan when it was elevated from prelature to a
diocese.

On March 22, 1986, he was named sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Nueva_Segovia Archbishop of
Nueva Segovia in sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilocos_Sur Ilocos Sur , and sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Quevedo#cite_note-rc-hierarchy-2 on
May 30, 1998, he was named sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Cotabato Archbishop of
Cotabato .

In 1994, then a bishop, Quevedo received the most votes for election to
the General Council of the Secretariat of the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Bishops_(Catholic) Synod of
Bishops in sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome Rome .
He was a former secretary-general of the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Asian_Bishops%27_Conferences Federation of
Asian Bishops' Conferences and former president of the Catholic
Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.

First, only bishop from Mindanao sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Quevedo#cite_note-rapp-5

On January 12, 2014, sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis Pope Francis named him as one of 19 new cardinals of the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Catholic Church . He was created a cardinal in the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_consistory consistory of February
22, 2014 and become the 8th Filipino cardinal (Cardinals Rufino Santos, Julio
Rosales, Jaime Sin, Ricardo Vidal, Jose Sanches, Gaudencio Rosales, Antonio
Tagle) and one of the four living cardinals.

Other living cardinalsare Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Gaudencio
Cardinal Rosales and Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.

Orlando
Beltrán Quevedo was born on March 11, 1939, in sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoag Laoag , sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilocos_Norte 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 inKoronadal City (formerly sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koronadal_City Marbel), South Cotabato , graduating in
1950. He attended sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_of_Marbel_University Notre Dame High
School in Marbel from 1950 to 1954.

Quevedo studied at sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose_Seminary San José Seminary from
1954 to 1956, but spent his sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novitiate novitiate in St.
Peter's Novitiate in sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission,_Texas 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 sand//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oblate_Collegeandampaction=editandampredlink=1 Oblate
College (Catholic University of America)in sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. Washington, D.C. .

He was ordained a priest of the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Oblates_of_Mary_Immaculate Missionary
Oblates of Mary Immaculate on June 5, 1964 and first assigned as
assistant sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parish_priest parish priest of
Cotabato Cathedral.

On January 12, 2014, Pope Francis named Quevedo as one of 19
men to be inducted into the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Cardinals College of Cardinals in
the sand//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinals_created_by_Francis consistory of
February 22, 2014 , with the titular church of Santa Maria
Regina Mundi a Torre Spaccata .”