1. Gaudencio Rosales is the longest-lived Filipino cardinal, surpassing Cardinal Jose Tomas Sanchez.
16 Facts About Gaudencio Rosales
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Gaudencio Rosales is the third of seven siblings, the others being Rosie, Guillermo, Gabriel, Tessie, Gilbert and Mary Grace.
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Gaudencio Rosales attended his elementary education at Batangas Elementary School and St Bridget's Grade School and his secondary education at Batangas High School.
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Gaudencio Rosales studied theology at the San Jose Seminary and had as classmates two other future bishops: Bishop Severino Pelayo, later Military Ordinary of the Philippines, and Bishop Benjamin Almoneda, later Bishop of Daet.
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In 1974, Gaudencio Rosales was named auxiliary bishop of Manila, the first Batangueno to be named such.
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Bishop Gaudencio Rosales received his crosier from the Vicar General of Lipa Venerable Alfredo Maria Obviar and has used it ever since.
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Gaudencio Rosales took care of the ecclesiastical district of East Antipolo in Rizal from until 1980 and later the ecclesiastical district of Manila South from 1980 to 1982.
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Gaudencio Rosales was consecrated bishop of the titular see of Oescus in a ceremony on October 28,1974, and in 1980 was appointed rector of the archdiocesan major seminary, San Carlos Seminary.
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Gaudencio Rosales joined 14 others, two of them Asians, as the newest members of the College of Cardinals.
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On February 3,2007, Gaudencio Rosales was appointed for a five-year term on the 15-member Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organizational and Economic Concerns of the Apostolic See.
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In 2008, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales offered his resignation from the governance of the archdiocese, as required under canon law on reaching the age of 75, but Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re communicated that the Holy See had not accepted it.
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Four months after his 79th birthday, Gaudencio Rosales resigned as Archbishop of Manila and he was succeeded by the then-Bishop of Imus, Luis Antonio Tagle upon the latter's installation on December 12,2011.
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Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales expressed support for charter change but condemned politicians pushing their personal agenda in amending the constitution.
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In 2008, Gaudencio Rosales clashed with Ang Ladlad founder Danton Remoto on the subject of allowing gays to participate, in drag, in the Flores de Mayo celebration.
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The guidelines that Gaudencio Rosales wrote for implementing the 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum were reported to have been criticized by Dario Castrillon Hoyos, President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, as too restrictive.
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On September 16,2010, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales issued a pastoral letter expressing the Catholic Church's condemnation of abortion and recalling the excommunication imposed by the Church on those who procure it or help others to do so.