Orlando B. Cardinal Quevedo, O.M.I., D.D.

Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, O.M.I., D.D., earned his degree in Philosophy from San Jose Seminary, Quezon City, in 1960. After finishing his STB and MA in Religious Education at the Oblate College, Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., he was ordained a priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on June 5, 1964. He was made the Bishop of Kidapawan in 1980, Archbishop of Nueva Segovia in 1986, and Archbishop of Cotabato in 1998. A peace advocate and a powerful voice for interreligious dialogue in the southern Philippines, he co-founded the Bishops-Ulama Conference of the Philippines in 1996. He was elected President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) from 1999 to 2003, and of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) from 2005 to 2011. Pope Francis made him a Cardinal in the consistory of February 22, 2014.