Jesús Armamento Dosado (1 September 1939 – 22 June 2020) was a Filipino prelate of the

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in the Philippines, who served as the Bishop and then Archbishop of Ozamiz from 1981 until his retirement in 2016. He was the first archbishop of Ozamiz when it was elevated to an archdiocese in 1983.

Biography

Dosado was ordained a priest on 26 May 1966 and became a member of

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(CM). On 31 October 1977 at the age of 38, he was elevated to a bishop as the

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of Nabala. He became auxiliary Bishop of the

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and then

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. Dosado was transferred to the diocese of Ozamiz, and after 2 years, he was elevated as Archbishop. He retired in 2016, become Archbishop Emeritus of Ozamiz. He died on 22 June 2020. His body is laid to rest inside the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Ozamiz City.

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