Miguel Cinches

Miguel C. cinches SVD ( born February 7, 1932 in Dauis, Bohol, Philippines, † April 12, 2010 in Manila, Philippines) was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Surigao.

Life

Miguel cinches joined in 1956 the Congregation of the Divine Word Missionaries in and received by his theological training on 22 October 1961, the ordination. He taught at the " Christ the King Mission Seminary " (1961-1964) and the Order seminar in Tagaytay City ( 1968-1973 ). He was awarded his doctorate for a doctoral program in philosophy in 1968 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome; In 1968 he graduated from the Catholic University of America graduate studies in music (composition and conducting ). He was appointed rector of the seminary in Tagaytay City in 1968.

Pope Paul VI. appointed cinches in 1973 bishop of Surigao. He received his episcopal consecration on March 24, 1973, the Archbishop Carmine Rocco, Apostolic Nuncio of the Philippines; Were co-consecrators Federico G. Limon, SVD, Archbishop of Lingayen - Dagupan, and his predecessor, Charles Van den Ouwelant MSC. He was a member of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP ), President of the " Ecclesiastical Filippino in Urbe " in Rome and chairman of the " Catholic Education Association of the Philippines ".

His illness resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II in 2001.

Miguel cinches was considered a renowned composer of liturgical music.