27 Facts About Ricardo Vidal

Ricardo Tito Jamin Vidal was a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church.

In 1937, Vidal received his first communion at the International Eucharistic Celebration.

Ricardo Vidal attended Mogpog Elementary School for his primary education.

Ricardo Vidal studied at the Minor Seminary of the Most Holy Rosary in Sariaya, Quezon, and at the Saint Francis de Sales Seminary in Lipa, Batangas, where he studied philosophy.

Ricardo Vidal studied theology at the San Carlos Seminary in Makati, Metro Manila.

Ricardo Vidal was ordained a deacon on September 24,1955, and as a priest on March 17,1956, on Lucena, Quezon Province, by Bishop Alfredo Obviar.

Ricardo Vidal became the spiritual director of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Seminary in Sariaya, Quezon.

Ricardo Vidal was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Malolos on November 30,1971 and was consecrated bishop by Archbishop Carmine Rocco, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines.

Ricardo Vidal was a frequent collaborator with Bishop Teofilo Camomot and bore witness to the native Cebuano prelate's claimed miraculous deed.

Ricardo Vidal helped found the Catechist Missionaries of St Theresa, a Catholic religious congregation.

Ricardo Vidal was President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from 1986 to 1987 and became Chairman of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on the Clergy in 1989.

Ricardo Vidal was appointed the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences's Convenor of the Standing Committee.

Ricardo Vidal was a delegate to the Synod on Reconciliation, the Extraordinary Synod, the Synod on Priests, and the Synod on Religious Life, and served as President Delegate at the 1989 Synod on the Laity.

Ricardo Vidal was a member of the Permanent Council of the Synod from 1989 to 1994.

Ricardo Vidal was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, the only Filipino cardinal to do so, because Cardinal Jaime Sin's poor health prevented him from attending.

In 1989 President Corazon Aquino asked Ricardo Vidal to convince General Jose Comendador, who was sympathetic to the rebel forces fighting her government, to surrender peacefully.

Ricardo Vidal's intervention averted what could have been a bloody coup.

In 2001, during the 2001 People Power Revolution Ricardo Vidal convinced President Joseph Estrada to step down.

Ricardo Vidal was succeeded by Archbishop Jose S Palma of Palo.

Ricardo Vidal continued presiding at Masses and attending events organized by the Archdiocese of Cebu.

Ricardo Vidal underwent a coronary angiogram procedure and had a pacemaker installed in 2004.

Ricardo Vidal experienced a mild stroke on September 23,2013.

Ricardo Vidal was confined to the hospital multiple times beginning in 2014 for pneumonia.

Ricardo Vidal was confined in a hospital in May 2017 for the same illness, given the Catholic sacrament of anointing of the sick on October 11, and died on October 18.

Ricardo Vidal received recognition from the House of Representatives through House Resolution 593.

Ricardo Vidal was influential in pushing for the canonization of several Filipinos, especially Pedro Calungsod.

Filipino Catholics have been urging that Ricardo Vidal receive the same honor.