Leonard Legaspi

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Most Rev. Leonard Legaspi
Senior posting

Denomination	Catholic Church
See	Nueva Caceres
Title	Archbishop of Nueva Caceres
Personal
Date of birth	November 25, 1935 (1935-11-25) (age 72)
Place of birth	Meycauayan, Bulacan

The Most Reverend Leonard Zamora Legaspi, D.D. (Born November 25, 1935) is the current Archbishop of Nueva Caceres which its suffragas include Daet, Legazpi, Libmanan , Masbate, Sorsogon, Virac.

Styles of Leonard Legaspi


Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Archbishop
Posthumous style	not applicable

1 Archbishop of Caceres
2 CBCP President
3 Political Position
4 Reference

[edit] Archbishop of Caceres

He became priest on the 17th of December 1960 with the order of Friars Preachers. In October 20 1983, Leonard Legaspi O.P. was appointed Archbishop of Nueva Caceres. He was also the first Filipino rector of the University of Santo Tomas Central Seminary, the first Vicar of the Dominican Province of the Philippines and the first Filipino rector of The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.

[edit] CBCP President

He elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines in July 1986 and re-elected for a second term in July 1989.

[edit] Political Position

see also: Philippine National Broadband Network controversy
Together with Archbishop Angel Lagdameo and Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Archbishop Legaspi announced the CBCP stance regarding President Gloria Arroyo's Zte/Nbn Controversy.

[edit] Reference

Consecrator of
Episcopal Lineage
Consecrated by:	Bruno Torpigliani
Date of consecration:	8 Aug 1977
Bishop	Date of consecration
Bishop Gilbert Armea Garcera	29 Jun 2007


	Current Filipino Archbishops
Cardinal-Archbishop: Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales (Manila) \| Ricardo Cardinal Vidal (Cebu) Archbishops: Leonard Legaspi (Nueva Caceres) \| Antonio Ledesma (Cagayan de Oro) \| Onesimo Gordoncillo (Capiz) \| Orlando Quevedo (Cotabato) \| Fernando Capalla (Davao) \| Angel Lagdameo (Jaro) \| Oscar V. Cruz (Lingayen-Dagupan) \| Ramon Arguelles (Lipa) \| Ernesto Salgado (Nueva Segovia) \| Jesus Dosado (Ozamis) \| Jose S. Palma (Palo) \| Paciano Aniceto (San Fernando) \| Diosdado Talamayan (Tuguegarao) \| Romulo Valles (Zamboanga) Papal Nuncio: Adolfo Yllana (Pakistan Nunciature) \| Francisco Padilla (Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Nunciature) \| Osvaldo Padilla (Korea and Mongolia Nunciature) \| Bernardito Auza (Haiti Nunciature)