Butuan bishop dies
MANILA, Philippines — Another Catholic bishop has passed away, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) announced yesterday.
Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos died on Saturday night. He was 74 years old.
The CBCP has yet to confirm the cause of De Dios’ death.
“With the death of Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos, a part of us died too, but we look at death with hope and faith in the Risen Lord,” CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said.
Born in Barangay Moto Sur in Loon, Bohol on March 8, 1943, Pueblos was ordained on March 30, 1968 and became bishop on June 24, 1985.
Before his appointment to the Diocese of Butuan in 1995, Pueblos served as auxiliary bishop of Davao in 1985 and bishop of Kidapawan in 1987.
On Oct. 18, retired Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal died due to an infection that led to septic shock.
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