Nicolas M. Mondejar Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Bishop Emeritus of Diocese of San Carlos
Church:Catholic
Province:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jaro
Diocese:Roman Catholic Diocese of San Carlos
See:San Carlos
Appointed:21 November 1987
Term Start:10 February 1988
Term End:25 July 2001
Predecessor:New creation
Successor:Jose Advincula
Other Post:Asst. editor of Veritas, Jaro, Iloilo City, 1953-1957
Asst. parish priest, La Paz, Iloilo City1953-1957
Psychiatric social worker and marriage counsellor, Catholic Charities, Brooklyn, New York, 1959-1961
Representative of the Diocesan Catholic Charities to the Domestic 1961-1962
Relations Court, Brooklyn, New York 1961-1962
Youth Counsellor, Lincoln Hall, New York, 1963-1965
Psychiatric social worker, Catholic Charities, Brooklyn, New York, 1965-1969
Auxiliary bishop, Cebu, 1970-1975
Chairman, NASSA, CBCP, 1976-1980
Consecration:August 30, 1970
Consecrated By:Archbishop Carmine Rocco and co-Consecrated Bishop Antonio Frondosa and Bishop Manuel Sandalo Salvador
Rank:Bishop
Birth Name:Nicolas Mollenedo Mondejar
Birth Date:15 September 1924
Birth Place:Cabatuan, Iloilo, Philippine Islands
Death Place:San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Buried:San Carlos Borromeo Cathedral and Parish, San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines
Nationality:Filipino
Religion:Roman Catholicism
Previous Post:Auxiliary Bishop of Cebu and Bishop of Romblon
Bishop Name:Nicolas Mondejar
Dipstyle:The Most Reverend
Offstyle:Your Excellency

Nicolas Mollenedo Mondejar (15 September 1924 – 10 February 2019) was a Filipino Catholic bishop. He was the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Romblon from 1974 to 1987 after his appointment to the Bishop of San Carlos, Negros Occidental. He later became its bishop-emeritus.[1] [2]

Life and career

Nicolas Mollenedo Mondejar was born on 15 September 1924 in the municipality of Cabatuan in Iloilo in the Philippines. He was ordained a priest on 4 April 1953 in San Miguel, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. Seventeen years later he was ordained as a bishop, on 30 August 1970 in Jaro, Iloilo.[1]

Mondejar died on 10 February 2019, age 94.[3]

Education

Mondejar attended the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in philosophy and obtained a licentiate of philosophy. In 1947, he earned a licentiate in theology in the University of Santo Tomas Central Seminary. He also went to Fordham University in New York in 1959 and earned a master's degree in social services.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Most Rev. Nicolas M. Mondejar, D.D . Cbcponline.net . 2015-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604075735/http://www.cbcponline.net/bishops/retired/mondejar.html . 2011-06-04 . dead .
  2. Web site: Bishop Nicolas Mollenedo Mondejar [Catholic-Hierarchy].
  3. Web site: Church mourns death of 2 bishops. Rappler. 11 February 2019. 11 February 2019.