The Right Reverend Benito C. Cabanban | |
Bishop Of: | the Philippines |
Diocese: | Episcopal Church in the Philippines |
Consecration: | February 24, 1959 |
Birth Date: | May 9, 1911 |
Death Date: | November 22, 1990 |
Benito C. Cabanban was the first native bishop of the Philippines in The Episcopal Church. He served as Suffragan Bishop before he became the first Presiding Bishop of the Philippines for the Philippine Episcopal Church from 1967 to 1978 when the church was elevated from missionary district to a full-fledged diocese under The Episcopal Church in the United States.[1]