Gerard Francisco Timoner III

{{Short description|Filipino Catholic priest and Dominican master (born 1968)}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Very Reverend

| name = Gerard Timoner III

| honorific-suffix = OP

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| caption = Timoner in 2023

| title = Master of the Order of Preachers

| elected = 13 July 2019

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| predecessor = Bruno Cadoré

| ordination = 14 May 1995

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| birth_name = Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|01|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines

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| church = Latin Church

| religion = Roman Catholic

| education = {{unbulleted list|Philippine Dominican Center of International Studies|Catholic University of Nijmegen|University of Santo Tomas}}

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| previous_post = Vice rector for Religious Affairs and Rector of the Central (Interdiocesan) Seminary at the University of Santo Tomas (2007–2012)

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Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III {{post-nominals|post-noms=OP}} (born 26 January 1968) is a Filipino Catholic priest who has served as the 88th Master of the Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans, since 13 July 2019. He is the first Asian to hold the position.

Timoner is also a professor of theology at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and since 2014 a member of the International Theological Commission.

Early life and education

Gerard Francisco P. Timoner III was born on 26 January 1968 in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines to Francisco Timoner Jr. and Lilia Parco. He attended the Augustinian-administered La Consolacion College – Daet, graduating first honors from grade school in 1981, and as high school valedictorian in 1985. He obtained his licentiate in philosophy at the Philippine Dominican Center for International Studies in 1991 and a licentiate in theology at the University of Santo Tomas in 1994. He joined the Dominicans in 1985 and professed his vows in 1989.{{cite web | access-date = 13 July 2019 | date= 13 July 2019 | url = https://varsitarian.net/witness/20190713/timoner-is-new-successor-of-st-dominic-de-guzman | title = Timoner is new successor of St. Dominic de Guzman | first = Eugene Dominic V. | last= Aboy | work = The Varsitarian}} His brother, Ronald Anthony Timoner, is also a priest who served as the Vicar General and Diocesan Administrator of the Diocese of Daet and was appointed as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Pagadian.

Vocation

Timoner was ordained a priest in 1995. He earned additional degrees in sacred theology and intercultural theology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 2004.{{cite press release |language=es|date= 13 July 2019| url = https://www.dominicos.org/noticia/gerard-timoner-nuevo-maestro-de-la-orden/ | access-date = 13 July 2019 | title = El filipino Fr. Gerard Timoner III elegido maestro de la Orden de Predicadores | publisher = Oficina de Comunicación Dominicos España}}

On 23 September 2014, Pope Francis named him a member of the International Theological Commission.{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2014/09/23/0666/01476.html | language = it |date= 23 September 2014 | title = Rinunce e nomine, 23.09.2014}} He is the fourth Filipino to have that distinction.

In December 2018, he was one of the leaders of a delegation of priests that searched the Dominican Mausoleum in Rome's Campo Verano cemetery for the remains of the first native-born Filipino ever consecrated a bishop, Jorge Barlin (born 1850–1909), who served as the Bishop of Nueva Caceres until his death in the city in 1909.{{cite web |last1=Lagarde |first1=Roy |title=Hunt on for remains of first Filipino prelate in Rome |url=https://www.ucanews.com/news/hunt-on-for-remains-of-first-filipino-prelate-in-rome/84033 |website=Union of Catholic Asian News |publisher=UCAN Ltd. |accessdate=13 July 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713115647/https://www.ucanews.com/news/hunt-on-for-remains-of-first-filipino-prelate-in-rome/84033 |archivedate=13 July 2019 |location=Hong Kong |language=en |date=6 December 2018}}{{cite web |title=Filipino elected first Asian head of the Dominicans |url=http://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/filipino-elected-first-asian-head-of-the-dominicans/ |publisher=Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines |accessdate=13 July 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713104126/http://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/filipino-elected-first-asian-head-of-the-dominicans/ |archivedate=13 July 2019 |location=Manila |language=en |date=13 July 2019}}

He was Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines and then Socius of the Master for Asia-Pacific{{cite press release |title=Dominicans elect 88th Master of the Order: Filipino priest Fr. Gerard Francisco P. Timoner III, O.P. – University of Santo Tomas |url=http://www.ust.edu.ph/uwide-news/dominicans-elect-88th-master-of-the-order-filipino-priest-fr-gerard-francisco-p-timoner-iii-o-p/ |website=University of Santo Tomas |accessdate=13 July 2019 |date=13 July 2019}} before being elected Master of the Order on 13 July 2019.{{cite news | access-date = 13 July 2019 | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/it/chiesa/news/2019-07/gerard-timoner-iii-eletto-maestro-ordine-domenicani.html | first= Amedeo|last= Lomonaco |work = Vatican News| date= 13 July 2019 | title = Il filippino Gerard Timoner III eletto nuovo maestro dei domenicani | language = it }} As the head of the Dominicans, he is also the ex officio Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.{{cite web |last1=Patinio |first1=Ferdinand |title=Filipino priest elected as new head of Dominican mission |url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1074877 |website=Philippine News Agency |accessdate=13 July 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713112023/https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1074877 |archivedate=13 July 2019 |location=Manila |language=en |date=13 July 2019}}

References

External links

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{{cite web |last1=Timoner |first1=Gerard Francisco |title=Gerard Francisco Timoner III OP |url=http://www.dominikanerorden.de/gerard-francisco-timoner/ |website=Dominican Order Germany |accessdate=13 July 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713111039/http://www.dominikanerorden.de/gerard-francisco-timoner/ |archivedate=13 July 2019 |location=Cologne |language=en}}

{{succession box

| title = Master of the Order of Preachers

| before = Bruno Cadoré

| after = Incumbent

| years = 2019–present

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Category:1968 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Camarines Norte

Category:People from Quezon City

Category:Radboud University Nijmegen alumni