Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos (December 12, 1930 – September 17, 2016) was a Filipino

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archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Morelos was appointed as the first bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Butuan The Roman Catholic Diocese of Butuan (Lat: ''Dioecesis Butuanensis'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. History The Diocese was erected in 1967, through Pope Paul VI, separating from the Diocese of ...

in the

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in 1967 serving the diocese until 1994 when he transferred to the

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. He served as the archdiocese's bishop until his retirement in 2006. Morelos also served at the

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as its president from 1991 to 1995 and was named the chairman of the Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference twice. He was also one of the reported candidates to succeed then retiring Manila Archbishop

Jaime Sin Jaime Lachica Sin ( zh, t=辛海梅, 辛海棉, poj=Sin Hái-mûi, Sin Hái-mî; August 31, 1928 – June 21, 2005), commonly and formally known as Jaime Cardinal Sin, was the 30th Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila and the third cardinal from ...

who was then set to vacate his post in August 2003. He died of age-related illness on September 17, 2016.

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1930 births 2016 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines People from Sorsogon Roman Catholic archbishops of Zamboanga Presidents of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines {{Philippines-RC-archbishop-stub