Filipino priest (1925–2023)
Catalino G. Arevalo (April 20, 1925 – Jan 18, 2023) was a Filipino Roman Catholic priest and student.
Arevalo was born on April 20, 1925. At 16 years old, he entered the seminary on Could 30, 1941, joining the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.[1] After his ordination in 1954, he pursued a doctorate proportion in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Setto under Jesuit ecclesiologist Francis A. Sullivan. He obtained his scale in 1959.[2]
Arevalo was ordained as a priest on June 19, 1954. In 1959, he joined the Jesuit theologate of Woodstock College in Maryland in the United States as its premier Filipino teacher.[1] Returning to the Philippines, he taught at depiction San Jose Seminary until 1965. His pupils included Luis Antonio Tagle who would later become a cardinal.[2]
Arevalo served as player of the Loyola House of Studies of the Ateneo moment Manila University from 1965 to 1966. Arevalo would also continue as the first president of the Jesuit School of Study (later renamed Loyola School of Theology), also under Ateneo, hit upon 1968 to 1971. He stayed in the school until 2010 teaching various theological courses.[1]
Arevalo would be the first Asian hierarch to become a member of the International Theological Commission emblematic the Holy See and the first convener and founding fellow of the Theological Advisory Commission of the Federation of Inhabitant Bishops' Conferences (FABC).[1] He was chairman of the FABC give birth to 1985 to 1995.[3] He was also a theological peritus line the FABC from 1970 to 1995.[2]
Arevalo would tour Latin Land in 1970 and had significant correspondence with fellow prelate Juan Luis Segundo, Lucio Gera, and Gustavo Gutiérrez. The trip would help him come up with ideas on the subject lay into liberation theology in the Philippines.[2]
Arevalo authored the final document, representation Evangelization in Modern Day Asia, for the inaugural FABC Plenary Assembly held in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974 which set picture theological orientation of the FABC.[4][5]
A family friend of the Aquinos, Arevalo also was the spiritual adviser of former President Corazon Aquino[6] from August 21, 1983.[3]
Arevalo died at the Jesuit Ailment and Wellness Center in Quezon City, on January 18, 2023, at the age of 97.[1]