Prominent Filipino Jesuit priest Catalino Arevalo, dubbed the “Father of Asian Theology,” died early morning of Wednesday, January 18, three months before his 98th birthday.
“Our dear mentor and friend, Fr Catalino Arevalo, SJ, whom we fondly called ‘Fr Revs,’ has passed on,” read a note posted on social media by Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan.
In 1998, Father Arevalo was named the “Father of Asian Theology” by the Ateneo de Manila University at a convocation commemorating the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The Jesuit was the first Asian on the Holy See’s International Theological Commission and the first convenor and founding member of the Theological Advisory Commission of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences .
He drafted the first FABC statement, the landmark “Evangelization in Modern Day Asia,” which remains “the most influential articulation … of the local Churches of Asia.”In 1997, the Jesuit priest received the Vatican’s “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice ” for distinguished service to the Church.
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