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ABOUT Msgr. Hermogenes E. Bacareza, SVD

About the Author Msgr. Hermogenes E. Bacareza, SVD, was born on July 12, 1930 in Maribojoc, Bohol, Philippines. He made his first vows as a Divine Word Missionary in 1952 and was ordained to the priesthood on October 18, 1959 by the Apostolic Nun-cio Archbishop Salvatore Siino, DD in the newly built Sacred Heart Parish Church in Kamuning, Quezon City. He obtained his MA in Histoiy at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and his Ph.D at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila with his dissertation, entitled A History of Philippine-German Relations from 1836 until 1970 with a grade of Meriissimus. Later he pursued his postgraduate studies in History and Englsih at Harvard University in Cam-bridge, Massachussets, USA. He obtained his JCD at the UST Central Seminary in 1998 with his doctoral dissertation on Psychological Incapacity to Assume the Essential Obligations of Marriage, Magna cum Laude. In between, he was awarded the Anthony Aguirre Professorial Chair in History by the UST Graduate School in recognition of his academic excellence and meritorious service in the field of teaching and research. Almost at the same month, he was awarded the Fr. Silvestre Sancho, OP Service Award for his unselfish service for many years of teaching, his sense of academic leadership and his willingness to share generously with others. Later in 2000 - 2002 he made his postgraduate studies in Canon Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University with another degree in Eccle-siastical Jurisprudence, Summa Cum Laude. Finally, he made his doctorate in Sacred Theology with his controversial work on the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, focusing on the Jewish Question. He has written several books and published learned arti-cles in the UST Journal of Graduate Research, Ad Veritatem, Philippine Trade Development, Southeast Asia and the Ger-mans and in the Informationsspiegel. His book on Philippine-German relations was serialized in the Philippine Times in Mainz, Germany. He was for many years the editor-in-chief of the Berlin-Philippine monthly news magazine, The Mabu-hay and for sometime the editor of the Informationsspiegel, a publication of the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft Philippines. He presently works as the Judicial Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Presiding Judge at the National Appellate Tribunal and Canon Lawyer of the SVD Central Province. Besides, he teaches Canon Law in the Faculty of Canon Law at the UST Central University. He also teaches Modern European History of Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, and Austria at the UST Graduate School. In 2003, the German highest award, the "Grosses Bundesverdi-enstkreuz" was bestowed on him by the President of the Republic of Germany, Dr. Johannes Rau, through Ambassador Herbert D. Jess at the UST Tanghalang Teresita Quirino in the presence of his students, fellow professors, the Ger-man Embassy officials, the German Cultural Center authori-ties in Makati and the Geramn Community in Manila. In 2006, he was appointed National Chairman of the Philippine-German Cultural Association, the Dr. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cultural Society in the Philippines. Finally, on March 29, 2008 he was bestowed the title of Monsignor (honorary prelate) by Bishop Antonio P. Palang, SVD, in nmine Romani Pontificis, Pope Benedict XVI, for his long and faithful service as Judicial Vicar in the diocese and Presiding Judge at the National Appellate Matrimonial Tribunal of the Catholic Bish-ops' Conference in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines.

Msgr. Hermogenes E. Bacareza, SVD

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