Paciano Aniceto

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Most Rev. Paciano Aniceto
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Denomination Catholic Church
Senior posting
See San Fernando
Title Archbishop of San Francisco
Period in office January 31, 1989 — present
Predecessor Oscar V. Cruz
Personal
Date of birth March 9, 1937 (1937-03-09) (age 71)
Place of birth Santa Ana, Pampanga

Archbishop Paciano Basilio Aniceto, D.D. is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Fernando. He is the Third Archbishop to hold the Metropolitan See, which is located in located in San Fernando City, Pampanga, Philippines.

Aniceto was born on March 9, 1937 in the old town of Santa Ana. He was ordained a priest on December 23, 1962. He served various parishes under the Diocese of San Fernando (elevated to an Archdiocese on March 17, 1975 by Pope Paul VI.) He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Tuguegarao City and Titular Bishop of Tlos on April 7, 1979. He was consecrated as a Bishop on May 27, 1979. His Principal Consecrator was His Holiness Pope John Paul II and his Principal Co-Consecrators were their Eminences Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy and Eduardo Cardinal Martinez Somalo.

On October 20, 1983, he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Iba, Zambales and served as Bishop for 5 years. Then on January 31, 1989 he was elevated to the Metropolitan See of the Archdiocese of San Fernando as Archbishop, succeeding Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz.

On December 17, 2007, in a statement on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) website, Pampanga archbishop Paciano Aniceto stated that Pope Benedict XVI assured Filipinos that God and the Church are still with them - in his encyclical "Spe Salvi facti sumus (In hope we are saved)."[1]

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