Edwin Angot de la Peña

Edwin Angot de la Pena was born on April 3, 1954, in Tambisan, San Juan, Siquijor; the roster governs the day, with Wikipedia's April 5 flagged as a variant. His formation, resting on Wikipedia citing the Vatican Press, UCA News, and Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines profiles, none of which was opened, is flagged as such: Siquijor Central Elementary School; Mission Society of the Philippines minor seminary in Tayud, Consolacion, Cebu, from 1968 to 1971, until its closure; St. Joseph Seminary, Dumaguete, from 1971 to 1972; philosophy at San Carlos Seminary, Cebu, from 1972 to 1976; theology at Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay City, from 1976 to 1981; and a licentiate in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1996 to 1998. He was ordained a priest on April 22, 1981; the date rests on Wikipedia citing the UCA News and Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines profiles, which were not opened. The ordaining bishop, Gaudencio Rosales, is infobox-only and is not shipped. In the Mission Society of the Philippines he was initially assigned to Marawi to immerse himself in Muslim culture, then acting rector of the Fil-Mission Seminary in Tagaytay City, first Supreme Moderator of the society from 1983 to 1988, and in the Archdiocese of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 1989 to 1995.

On June 23, 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed him Prelate of Marawi. He was installed as priest-prelate on August 12, 2001, and elevated to episcopal dignity on October 22, 2001, and he was ordained a bishop on December 27, 2001. The roster codes the tenure from December 27, 2001, the episcopal-ordination day, not from the August 12, 2001, priest-prelate installation; the dossier's open tenure follows the roster, and the bio explains the August 2001 installation, the same office held continuously, with no second tenure. The ordination venue, the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Ozamiz, and the principal consecrator, Archbishop Antonio Franco, are Wikipedia-body-only and are not shipped, so no principal or venue is named. His predecessor, Bienvenido Tudtud, M.S.P., was the prelature's first prelate; the prelature itself was established on November 20, 1976, carved out of the Territorial Prelature, now Diocese, of Iligan, and stood sede vacante from Tudtud's death on June 26, 1987, until de la Pena's installation on December 27, 2001. Within the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines he chaired the Commission on Mission from 2003 to 2013 and the Commission on Interreligious Dialogue since 2019, both resting on Wikipedia citing conference sources. His motto, 'Pax Et Fraternitas', is Wikipedia-only and is not shipped.

On May 23, 2017, the Daesh-affiliated Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups attacked Marawi City and stormed the cathedral, where then-Vicar General Fr. Teresito Soganub and several parishioners were held hostage; the Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians and the bishop's residence were destroyed, eight Christians who refused to convert to Islam were killed, and 240 people were reportedly kidnapped, Soganub subsequently released. He now resides in Maria Cristina, Balo-i, where he built a pro-cathedral, shepherding with eight priests; the prelature's temporary headquarters are at Santo Tomas del Villanueva Parish, Maria Cristina, Balo-i. The prelature's charism, from Tudtud and carried forward by de la Pena, is a reconciling presence and dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

In the window, no governing act of his own concerning the 1962 Missal was found. His window record is peace witness and pastoral care for the displaced, not liturgical governance: on January 19, 2024, he joined seven other religious leaders in the joint 'Religions are for Peace' statement, after a January 16-17, 2024, dialogue in Cotabato City, condemning the December 3, 2023, bombing at Mindanao State University, facilitated by HWPL Philippines with support from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity; his own line ships, labeled joint, while the statement's own words are paraphrased, never quoted as his alone; and on May 24, 2022, the feast of Mary Help of Christians, he welcomed the relocation of families from 'ground zero' in a Radio Veritas 846 interview, from which a 39-word quotation ships. His Aid to the Church in Need interview of December 18, 2017, before the window, ships with dated context: two fragments totaling 29 words, stating the prelature's reason for being as dialogue between Muslims and Christians and Marawi as the showcase of inter-religious harmony.