1. Cirilo Almario was educated during his elementary years at Caridad Elementary School and attended high school at St Francis de Sales Minor Seminary in Lipa City, Batangas.
10 Facts About Cirilo Almario
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Cirilo Almario undertook his philosophy and theology studies at the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas Central Seminary in Manila.
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Later on, Cirilo Almario was appointed Vicar Capitular of the Archdiocese of Lipa before he was appointed as the Coadjutor Bishop of Malolos on August 22,1973.
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Cirilo Almario was consecrated on October 18,1973, at San Sebastian Cathedral in Lipa, by then Most Rev Bruno Torpigliani, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines with then Archbishop of Lipa, Ricardo J Vidal and Bishop of Laoag, Rafael Lim, as co-consecrators of his ordination.
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Cirilo Almario was ordained as the Titular Bishop of Zaba, alongside his appointment as Coadjutor Bishop of Malolos.
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Cirilo Almario was succeeded by now Archbishop of Caceres, Most Rev Rolando T Tirona as the 3rd Bishop of the Diocese thus, Almario was then granted the title of Bishop-Emeritus of Malolos.
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Cirilo Almario initiated the building of the diocese's own seminaries, the Immaculate Conception Major and Minor Seminary in Tabe, Guiguinto, Bulacan.
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Cirilo Almario officiated the first Synod in 1987 to 1988.
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Cirilo Almario died on October 14,2016, at the age of 85 at the Immaculate Conception Seminary, Guiguinto, Bulacan.
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Cirilo Almario was then accorded funeral rites at the Malolos Cathedral and was buried at the crypt of the cathedral beside his predecessor, Bishop del Rosario.