Broderick Soncuaco Pabillo
Broderick Soncuaco Pabillo was born on March 11, 1955, in Victorias, Negros Occidental, to Conrado Cordova Pabillo and Gloria Acuña Suncuaco. A Salesian of Don Bosco, he finished primary school at St. Joseph School in Naga, Camarines Sur, in 1968 and secondary school at Don Bosco Juniorate in San Fernando, Pampanga, in 1972. He entered the Salesian novitiate in Canlubang, Calamba, Laguna, in 1974, earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education at Don Bosco College, Canlubang, in 1977, taught at Don Bosco Makati from 1977 to 1978 and at Don Bosco Canlubang from 1978 to 1979, and studied theology at the University of Santo Tomas, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Sacred Theology in 1982. He made his perpetual vows on April 1, 1981, and was ordained a priest by Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin on December 8, 1982.
After ordination he studied Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, receiving his licentiate in 1986 under the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was parochial vicar of San Ildefonso Parish in Makati from 1986 to 1987, formator and professor of Old Testament at the Don Bosco Center of Studies in Parañaque from 1987 to 1999, and rector of the Don Bosco Seminary from 1996 to 1999. In 1999 he left the Salesians and was incardinated to the Apostolic Vicariate of Palawan, serving as parish priest of St. Ezekiel Moreno Parish in Puerto Princesa from 1999 to 2006.
On May 24, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Manila and Titular Bishop of Sitifis. He was consecrated bishop on August 19, 2006. As auxiliary he served as vicar general of the Archdiocese of Manila from 2006 to 2021. He chaired the Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice, and Peace of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from 2007 to 2013, its Permanent Committee on Public Affairs from 2013 to 2015, and its Episcopal Commission on the Laity from 2017 to 2021, and chaired the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences Office of Evangelization from 2017 to 2019. On February 10, 2020, on the departure of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle for Rome, Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila; he held that post until June 24, 2021, when Cardinal Jose Advincula was installed as Tagle's successor.
On June 29, 2021, Pope Francis appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Taytay in Palawan. He was installed on August 19, 2021, at 9:00 a.m., at St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral in Taytay, by Bishop Socrates Mesiona of Puerto Princesa, with Bishop Emeritus Edgardo Juanich present; Cardinal Advincula, who had been expected to preside, and Papal Nuncio Archbishop Charles John Brown were unable to attend because of pandemic travel restrictions. He succeeded Juanich, who had resigned in 2018 for health reasons, after a vacancy of three years. The vicariate had been established on May 26, 2002. His installation fell on his 15th episcopal ordination anniversary and the feast of St. Ezequiel Moreno, the Augustinian Recollect missionary who served in Palawan. His episcopal motto is Fides in caritate, 'faith through love' on the LiCAS rendering; the Varsitarian renders the gloss 'faith in love,' from Galatians 5:6.