Leonardo Legaspi

Leonard Zamora Legaspi OP ( born November 25, 1935 in Meycauayan, Philippines ) is a retired Archbishop of Caceres.

Life

Leonard Zamora Legaspi joined the Congregation of the Dominicans and received on 17 December 1960, the ordination.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 25 June 1977 Titular Bishop of Elephantaris in Mauretania and Auxiliary Bishop of Manila.

The Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Bruno Torpigliani, consecrated him on 8 August of the same year to the bishop; Co-consecrators were Juan Bautista Velasco Díaz OP, Bishop of Xiamen, and Federico O. Escaler SJ, Prelate of Kidapawan.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 20 October 1983, Archbishop of Caceres. On September 8, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to.