KAKATHA News 2012
Dated: April 11, 2012
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| Sem. Kendrick Ivan B. Panganiban, Editor-in-Chief of Catholic Hagonoeño: Looking into the Catholic Heritage of Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines (www.catholichagonoeno.blogspot.com) with Most Rev. Pedro Natividad Bantigue, D.D., Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of San Pablo, Laguna. |
SAN PABLO CITY - On April 11, the Catholic Hagonoeño Online Magazine's research team decided to go to the City of San Pablo, Laguna in order to meet and interview Hagonoy's remaining bishop, Most Rev. Pedro Natividad Bantigue, D.D. (Sta. Monica) The Catholic Hagonoeño research team had a conference with him during the Ephesus Love Day (February 11) sponsored by the Villa San Miguel and EDSA Shrine communities and initiated by Msgr. Sabino Vengco's Kadiwa sa Pagkapari Foundation, Inc. It was then that the research team was invited by the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Face of Jesus to come to San Pablo, Laguna to have minutes of conversation with Bishop Bantigue for his feature in Catholic Hagonoeño: Looking into the Catholic Heritage of Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines (Click this Link).
Sem. Panganiban was able to come to the MSHFJ sisters' convent in San Antonio, City of San Pablo where he was able to talk to the bishop who was very happy to see him. Bishop Bantigue, age 93 is the oldest priest from Hagonoy as of this year and is also one of the first bishops from the province of Bulacan. He is is still able to walk using a walker yet is regularly shot by insulin due to his diabetes. He is still able to read and write despite his age and he recently celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a bishop the previous year. He was private secretary to three Manila archbishops and became Auxiliary Bishop of Manila on May 29, 1961 and ordained on July 25 the same year. He was transferred to the see of San Pablo on April 18, 1967 and retired in 1995.
Bishop Bantigue is a living reminder of the legacy and continuity of the priesthood of Hagonoy, Bulacan. KAKATHa News Admin.
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