13 Facts About Gabriel Reyes

Gabriel Martelino Reyes was the 28th archbishop of Manila, and the first native Filipino to hold that post.

Gabriel Reyes previously served as Archbishop of Cebu from 1934 to 1949, and then served as Archbishop of Manila from 1949 till his death in 1952.

Gabriel M Reyes was born on March 24,1892, in Kalibo,.

Gabriel Reyes entered St Vincent Ferrer Seminary in Jaro, Iloilo City at the age of 13, during the time of Bishop Frederick Rooker.

Gabriel Reyes was ordained a priest, on March 27,1915, by Dennis Joseph Dougherty, the then-bishop of the then-Diocese of Jaro.

Gabriel Reyes was the parish priest of Santa Barbara, Iloilo.

Gabriel Reyes was appointed by the Holy See as Bishop of Cebu.

Gabriel Reyes ordained every year dozens of new candidates to the priesthood.

Gabriel Reyes established the Parishes of Guadalupe, Tabuelan, Simala and Santa Lucia to add to the existing parishes, and launched an evangelization program.

Gabriel Reyes became ill, and died at the age of 60 on October 10,1952, in a hospital in Washington, DC.

Gabriel Reyes was the immediate predecessor of two Filipino prelates who became cardinals: Julio Rosales, who succeeded him in Cebu, and Rufino Santos, who succeeded him in Manila.

Archbishop Gabriel Reyes renovated the Cebu Cathedral, which had been bombed during World War II.

Gabriel Reyes established parochial schools, and the Cebu archdiocesan officer newspaper Diaro-Kabuhi Sang Banua.