Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Thomas Augustine Hendrick | |
Archbishop Of: | Archbishop of Cebu |
See: | Cebu |
Appointed: | August 18, 1903 |
Ended: | November 29, 1909 |
Predecessor: | Martín García y Alcocer |
Successor: | Juan Bautista Gorordo |
Ordination: | June 7, 1873 |
Birth Date: | 29 October 1849 |
Birth Place: | Penn Yan, New York, United States |
Death Place: | Cebu, Philippines |
Nationality: | American |
Religion: | Roman Catholic |
Coat Of Arms: | Coat of arms of Thomas Augustine Hendrick.svg |
Thomas Augustine Hendrick (October 29, 1849 - November 29, 1909) was an American Catholic priest; he became the 22nd Bishop of Cebú, the first American to hold this position.
Thomas Augustine Hendrick was born in Penn Yan, New York on October 29, 1849.[1] He was ordained priest at St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, New York, on June 7, 1873, and spent 29 years in parish work in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.
When the reorganization of the Catholic Church in the Philippines was undertaken after the Spanish–American War, he was appointed Bishop of Cebú, and consecrated in Rome on August 23, 1903. He took possession of his See on March 6, 1904. He died from cholera in Cebu on November 29, 1909,[1] and was buried on the same day on the floor of the left wing of the Cebu Cathedral right beside the tomb of Bishop Romualdo Jimeno de Ballesteros.