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((short description|Filipino bishop and Venerable))
((More citations needed|date=August 2014))
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| name = Alfredo Obviar
| honorific-suffix = 
| title = ''[[Linoë|Titular Bishop of Linoë]]''<br>''[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucena|Bishop Emeritus of Lucena]]''
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| metropolis = Lucena
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| appointed = 4 November 1950
| term = 15 March 1951 until 25 September 1976
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| enthroned = 15 March 1951
| term_end = 25 September 1976
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| predecessor = ''Position established''
| successor = [[Jose Tomas Sanchez]]
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| ordination = 15 March 1919
| ordained_by = [[Alfredo Versoza]]
| consecration = 29 June 1944
| consecrated_by = [[Guglielmo Piani]], [[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]]
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| birth_name = Alfredo María Obviar y Aranda
| birth_date = ((Birth date|df=yes|1889|8|29))
| birth_place = [[Lipa City, Batangas|Lipa]], [[Batangas]], [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]]
| death_date = ((Death date and age|df=yes|1978|10|1|1889|8|29))
| death_place = [[Lucena, Philippines|Lucena]], [[Quezon]], [[Philippines]]
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| previous_post = Parish priest of Immaculate Conception Parish ([[Malvar, Batangas]]) and Cathedral Parish of St. Sebastian ([[Lipa City]])
Auxiliary Bishop of Lipa
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'''Alfredo María Obviar y Aranda''' (29 August 1889&nbsp;– 1 October 1978) is a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] [[prelate]] of the [[Catholic Church]] and the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Catechists of Saint Thérèse of the Infant Jesus, and was [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucena|Bishop of Lucena]] until his death. His cause for [[beatification]] is currently underway, He is [[Veneration|venerated]] by the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], having been declared [[The Venerable|Venerable]] by [[Pope Francis]].<ref name="venerable">((Cite news|url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1773193/Manila/Local-News/Lucena-Bishop-Alfredo-Obviar-2-steps-away-from-sainthood|title=Filipino bishop 2 steps away from sainthood|publisher=[[Sun.Star]]|date=November 9, 2018|accessdate=November 9, 2018))</ref>

==Early life==
Alfredo María Obviar y Aranda was born on 29 August 1889 in Mataás na Lupa, [[Lipa, Batangas|Lipa]], [[Batangas]] to Telesforo Obviar and Florentina Catalina Aranda. He became an orphan at the early age, and was put under the care of his relatives from his mother's side.<ref name=oclarim>[https://www.oclarim.com.mo/en/2018/11/23/venerable-alfredo-obviar-a-man-with-a-passion-for-catechesis/ "Venerable Alfredo Obviar", ''Oclarim'', Semanario Catolico de Macau, November 23, 2018]</ref>

Obviar received his early religious instruction at the college of [[St. Francis Xavier]] in [[Manila]] run by the [[Society of Jesus]], where he graduated in 1901. He earned his degree in Bachelor of Arts at [[Ateneo de Manila University|Ateneo de Manila]] in 1914, and proceeded to the [[University of Santo Tomas]] Pontifical Seminary for his theological studies.<ref name=oclarim/>

Obviar received the [[sacerdotal]] ordination on 15 March 1919. His pastoral ministry began that same year at Luta (now [[Malvar, Batangas]]) and he continued as vicar of the [[cathedral]]-parish in [[Lipa, Batangas|Lipa]] from 1927 to 1944. In both parishes, he established Catechetical Centers in the ''[[poblacion|población]]'' and the ''[[barrio]]s''.<ref name=oclarim/> He was also [[Vicar General]] for the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa|Diocese of Lipa]], and was appointed [[confessor]] and chaplain of the Carmelite Monastery of Lipa.

==Religious life==
On March 11, 1944, Obviar was appointed the first [[Auxiliary Bishop]] of Lipa and Titular Bishop of [[Linoë]], [[Turkey]].<ref>[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bobviar.html "Bishop Alfredo Maria Obviar y Aranda", Catholic Hierarchy]</ref> He was subsequently ordained to the [[episcopate]] on 29 June 1944, with the Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines Archbishop [[Guglielmo Piani]], as Principal Consecrator, with Pedro Paulo Santos, then-[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres|Bishop of Caceres]] ([[Naga, Camarines Sur|Naga]]) and César Ma. Guerrero, Auxiliary Bishop of Manila and Titular Bishop of Limisa, [[Tunisia]] as Co-Consecrators. 

On 22 January 1951, Obviar was installed as [[Apostolic Administrator]] of the new [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucena|Diocese of Lucena]]. Motivated by his great work for [[catechesis]], he founded the Missionary Catechists of St. Therese (MCST) on August 12, 1958.<ref name=tubeza>[http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/76881/retired-manila-archbishop-gaudencio-cardinal-rosales-to-make-a-saint Tubeza, Philip C., "Retired Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales to make a saint", ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'', October 16, 2011]</ref> He established the Missionary Catechists of Saint Thérèse of the Infant Jesus (MCST), with the help of Mother Mercy Medenilla, who became the first superior of the MCST, and has four other women. The earliest monastic MCST was founded in [[San Narciso, Quezon]].

To compensate for the shortage of priests in the new diocese, Obviar also founded the Our Lady of the Most Holy Seminary which was later renamed as Our Lady of Mount Carmel Seminary, a minor seminary in Sariaya, Quezon. Decades after, a major seminary was founded by the Diocese of Lucena re-institutionalizing the name Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Seminary. The establishment of this increased the number of priests attending from 1951 to 1975. In the year of his retirement, it had increased by more than 100 priests. Obivar ordained [[Ricardo Vidal|Ricardo Jamin Vidal]] to the priesthood on [[St. Patrick's Day]], 17 March 1956, in Lucena; Vidal would later become a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] and Archbishop Emeritus of the [[Archdiocese of Cebu]].

From 11 October 1962 to 8 December 1962, Obviar was a Council Father at the first Session of the [[Second Vatican Council]].
	
After more than 18 years as Administrator, Obviar was declared the first [[diocesan bishop]] of the Diocese of Lucena on July 15, 1969. He served as Bishop of Lucena until his retirement in 1976.<ref>[https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1053454 Patinio, Ferdinand. "Bishops laud Pope declaration of Obviar as 'venerable'", Philippine News Agency, November 9, 2018]</ref>

==Death==
Obviar died at the age of 89, in Lucena, Quezon, on 1 October 1978,<ref>[https://aleteia.org/2018/01/02/3-filipino-bishops-on-the-road-to-canonization/ Kosloski, Philip. "Three Filipino Bishops on the Road to Canonization", ''Aleteia'', January 2, 2018]</ref> on the feast of his [[patron saint]] [[Thérèse of Lisieux|Thérèse of the Child Jesus]].

==Veneration==
Obviar has saint protocol number 2398, and was declared ''nulla osta'' [[Servant of God]] in 2005. [[Pope Francis]] named him as [[venerable]] on 7 November 2018.<ref name="venerable"/>

==Notes==
((Reflist))

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150816034009/http://newsaints.faithweb.com/year/1978.htm Hagiography Circle]
*[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/event/ecv2-1-9.html]

==External links==
*[http://www.mcst.com.ph/founder.php MCST website]

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