John Forrosuelo Du
John Forrosuelo Du was born October 18, 1954, in Bantayan, Cebu. He studied philosophy at San Carlos Seminary College, Cebu (1971–1975), and theology at St. Augustine Major Seminary (SVD), Tagaytay City, with an earlier special course at Pope John XXIII Seminary.
He was ordained a priest for Cebu on June 1, 1979, by Cardinal Julio Rosales. He served as assistant pastor, then as professor, procurator, and rector at Cebu’s minor seminary, and as spiritual director of the Missionaries of Charity in Cebu.
He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cebu on November 21, 1997 and consecrated on January 6, 1998, at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, with Cardinal Ricardo Vidal as principal consecrator. He served as Bishop of Dumaguete (2001–2012) and has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Palo since his possession on May 9, 2012.
No decree, permission, suppression, expansion, or transfer of the Traditional Latin Mass by Archbishop Du, in Cebu as auxiliary, in Dumaguete, or in Palo, was found. The Palo archdiocesan website's circulars and decrees section could not be text-retrieved, so a web-only diocesan act would not have surfaced, and the Palo finding is accordingly low-confidence.
Two attribution guards were applied. A Hindang Traditional Latin Mass society directory listing is unattributed and is not counted as a diocesan site. A Maasin 'Latin Mass' reference belongs to the separate Diocese of Maasin and is not shown to mean the 1962 Missal, and SSPX presence in Leyte province rests on a 2011 study, undated and pre-Traditionis Custodes, and is not attributed to Du.