Orlando Beltran Quevedo

His Eminence Orlando B. Quevedo O.M.I, D.D.
Cardinal, Archbishop of Cotabato
Orlando Quevedo
Province	Cotabato
See	Cotabato
Installed	30 May 1998
Predecessor	Philip Francis Smith, O.M.I (†)
Successor	incumbent
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria "Regina Mundi" a Torre Spaccata
Orders
Ordination	June 5, 1964
Consecration	November 15, 1982 by Bruno Torpigliani
Created Cardinal	February 22, 2014 by Pope Francis
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	(1939-03-11) 11 March 1939 (age 78) Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Commonwealth of the Philippines
Motto	"Caritas congaudet veritati (Love rejoices in the truth)"
Coat of arms

Ordination history of
Orlando Quevedo

Information

Priestly ordination
Date of ordination	5 June 1964
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Bruno Torpigliani
Co-consecrators	Philip Francis Smith, OMI Federico O. Escaler, SJ
Date of consecration	28 October 1980
Cardinalate
Elevated by	Pope Francis
Date of elevation	22 February 2014
Bishops consecrated by Orlando Quevedo as principal consecrator
Jose Colin Mendoza Bagaforo	25 April 2006

Styles of Orlando B. Quevedo

Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal

Orlando Beltran Quevedo (born 11 March 1939) is a Filipino Cardinal and the current Archbishop of Cotabato. On January 12, 2014, Pope Francis named him as one of 19 new cardinals of the Catholic Church. He was created a cardinal in the consistory of February 22, 2014.

Orlando Beltran Quevedo was born on March 11, 1939, in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. Beginning in 1945, he attended grades 1 to 3 in Laoag Shamrock School, and finished grades 4 to 6 in Marbel Central Elementary School in Marbel, South Cotabato, graduating in 1950. He attended Notre Dame High School in Marbel from 1950 to 1954.

Quevedo studied at San José Seminary from 1954 to 1956, but spent his novitiate in St. Peter's Novitiate in Mission, Texas. He earned his degree in Philosophy from San José Seminary in 1960, and in 1964 received his S.T.B. and MA in Religious Education from Oblate College (Catholic University of America) in Washington, D.C.. He was ordained a priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on June 5, 1964.

In 1964, he was assigned assistant parish priest of Cotabato Cathedral,

Quevedo was appointed Bishop-Prelate of Kidapawan by Pope John Paul II on October 28, 1980. Upon the prelature's elevation to diocese, he assumed the title Bishop of Kidapawan.

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