James Thomas Gibbons Hayes, (11 February 1889 – 28 March 1980) was an American,

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, Jesuit archbishop and

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who served as the first Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro in the

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Background

Hayes was born on 11 February 1889 in

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, New York,

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. He attended the St. Francis Xavier College in

and

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. He also studied in Tronchiennes,

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. He started a career as a teacher, teaching at Regis High School in New York City. From 1918 to 1919, he taught the Classics at the Boston College in

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. He then served as

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of Discipline at Fordham University from 1923 to 1925.

Ministry

In 1907, Hayes entered the

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. On 29 June 1921, he was ordained priest. He moved to the

to do missionary work in 1926. A year after, he already started serving as the Superior of the

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. By 1930, he became Superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines, a position he held until 1933. On 20 January 1933, the new diocese of Cagayan de Oro was created by Pope Pius XI through the Papal bull "''Ad maius religionis''". Hayes was appointed as the first bishop of the new diocese and ordained as bishop on 16 March 1933 and 18 June 1933 respectively. On 29 June 1951, Pope Pius XII, through the Papal bull "''Quo Phillipina Republica''", elevated the Diocese of Cagayan de Oro to an archdiocese and appointed Hayes as the first Archbishop. He retired on 13 October 1970 and was succeeded by Patrick Cronin. Consequently, he became

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of Cagayan de Oro and

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of Gabii. On 2 December 1970, he resigned as

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of Gabii. He died on 28 March 1980.

Legacy

In 1928, Hayes founded the San Agustin Parochial School, the predecessor of the present

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in Cagayan de Oro. He then founded

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Ateneo de Cagayan, now

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, and became its first President. In 1956, in order to respond to the growing number of priests in the diocese, Hayes founded the San Jose de Mindanao Seminary. In recognition of Archbishop Hayes' role in the history of Cagayan de Oro, the road traversing from the north wing of the Cagayan de Oro City Hall to the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary was named after him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, James Clergy from New York City American emigrants to the Philippines 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Philippines Roman Catholic archbishops of Cagayan de Oro Participants in the Second Vatican Council 1889 births 1980 deaths 20th-century American Jesuits Jesuit provincial superiors