Archbishop Paciano Basilio Aniceto, D.D. is the Roman Catholic

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 Archbishop

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 of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Fernando. He is the Third Archbishop to hold the Metropolitan See

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, which is located in located in San Fernando City, Pampanga

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, Philippines

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Biography

Aniceto was born on March 9, 1937 in the old town of Santa Ana. He was ordain

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ed a priest on December 23, 1962. He served various parish

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es under the Diocese of San Fernando (elevated to an Archdiocese on March 17, 1975 by Pope Paul VI

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.) He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop

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 of Tuguegarao City

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 and Titular Bishop

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 of Tlos

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 on April 7, 1979. He was consecrated as a Bishop on May 27, 1979. His Principal Consecrator was His Holiness Pope John Paul II

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 and his Principal Co-Consecrators were their Eminences Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy and Eduardo Cardinal Martinez Somalo

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On October 20, 1983, he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Iba, Zambales

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 and served as Bishop for 5 years. Then on January 31, 1989 he was elevated to the Metropolitan See

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 of the Archdiocese of San Fernando as Archbishop, succeeding Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz

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