Bishop of Kalookan
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio S. David, Bishop of Kalookan, Philippines, was born in Betis, Guagua, Pampanga, in the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Fernando, on 2 March 1959. He was ordained a priest on 12 March 1983 for the metropolitan archdiocese of San Fernando. After a year as deputy parish priest, he was director of the Mother of Good Counsel Seminary until 1986. From 1986 to 1991 he studied abroad, receiving a licentiate and doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and attending courses at the École Biblique de Jerusalem where he received a diploma. Upon returning to the Philippines, he held several management and teaching roles in the educational team of the archdiocesan seminary. In 2002 he was director of the Department of Theology of the seminary, continuing to teach Sacred Scripture. In the same year he was elected vice president of the Catholic Biblical Association of the Philippines and vice president of the Archdiocesan Media Apostolate Networks. He is the author, at both academic and popular level, of several publications on Holy Scripture. On 27 May 2006, he was appointed titular bishop of Guardialfiera and auxiliary bishop of San Fernando by Pope Benedict XVI, and was consecrated the following 10 July. On 14 October 2015, he was appointed bishop of Kalookan. He was created and proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of 7 December 2024 and was assigned the titular church Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo. Member of: · Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.