Jose Francisco Oliveros

Jose was born on September 11, 1946. His parents were Vicente Oliveros and Angelina Francisco, from Quezon in the eponymous province. He studied at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Minor Seminary in Sariaya and the University of Santo Tomas Central Seminary in Manila. He completed his master’s degree in psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy.

He was ordained a priest on November 28, 1970 at Luneta (Rizal Park) in Manila by Pope Paul VI.[1] He was incardinated in 1984. Pope John Paul II appointed him on February 2, 2000, Bishop of the Diocese of Boac. He was consecrated bishop on March 20, 2000, in the Cathedral of San Diego de Alcala in Gumaca, Quezon by Archbishop Antonio Franco, former Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines.[2] The principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Gaudencio Borbon Rosales, then-Archbishop of Lipa and Bishop Emilio Zurbano Marquez, then-Bishop of Gumaca.

On May 14, 2004, Oliveros was appointed Bishop of Malolos. He was installed on August 5, 2004, at Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Malolos Cathedral) in Malolos.

He died on May 11, 2018, after a lengthy illness, particularly prostate cancer, just 4 months before his 72nd birthday. He is the first Bishop of Malolos to die in office. Among his last activities were the episcopal ordination of Bartolome Santos as the 5th Bishop of Iba, which he celebrated alongside San Fernando Archbishop Florentino Lavarias and Manila Archbishop Cardinal Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle at the Malolos Cathedral on April 30, 2018, and his last two masses at the San Miguel Arcangel Parishes in the towns of Marilao and San Miguel held on May 8, 3 days before his death. He is buried at the crypt of the Malolos Cathedral.[3]

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