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Great News | THE VENERABLE TEOFILO BASTIDA CAMOMOT
Titular Archbishop of Clysma
Founder of the Congregation of Santa Teresa
(1914-1988)
On May 21, 2022 the Holy Father Pope Francis authorized Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints in the Vatican, to promulgate a decree on the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Archbishop Teofilo Bastide Camomot, granting him the title of Venerable.
Archbishop Teofilo Camomot was born on March 3, 1914 in Carcar, Cebu. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 15, 1941. He was nominated Auxiliary Bishop of Archbishop Jose Cuenco of Jaro. The episcopal consecration took place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Cebu on March 26, 1955. Three years after, on June 10, 1958, he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Archbishop James Hayes of Cagayan de Oro. He founded the Carmelite Tertiaries of the Blessed Eucharist in Misamis Occidental in November 1959. This would later become the Congregation of Santa Teresa. After staying for 12 years in Cagayan de Oro, he resigned as Coadjutor Archbishop and returned to Cebu in 1970. He died in a vehicular accident on September 27, 1988. He was then 74 years old. His dedication to the poor and detachment from material possessions were the trademarks of his ministry.
Known for his fame of sanctity during his life, his death and after his death, the diocesan process of the cause of his beatification and canonization was opened for the first time in the archdiocese of Cebu on December 27, 2010 during the incumbency of Ricardo Cardinal Vidal. Upon the advise of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints, Archbishop Jose Palma authorized the reopening of the diocesan process on the life, virtues and fame of sanctity of the Servant of God Archbishop Teofilo Camomot. The process started on January 5, 2016 until March 2, 2017. In the course of this process, 45 witnesses who knew him personally were interviewed. The Congregation of the Causes of Saints granted the Decree of Validity of the Diocesan Process on November 19, 2015. The “Positio” on the life, virtues and fame of sanctity of Archbishop Camomot was submitted to the Congregation in 2020. The Special Congress composed of 9 Theological Consultants gave their unanimous approval on the heroic virtues of Camomot on October 21, 2021. The Cardinals and Bishops in the Ordinary Session of May 3, 2022, chaired by Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, have affirmed that the Servant of God exercised the theological, cardinal and concomitant virtues to a heroic degree.
After the presentation of these facts to the Supreme Pontiff Francis through an accurate report of Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, on May 21, 2022 His Holiness, having accepted and approved the decision of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, ordered that the Decree to this effect be made public and placed among the Acts of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
Salamat sa Dios!
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