Background
He was born 19 February 1893 in Quiapo, Manila, the Philippines.
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Dionisio Alejandro
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Miller, and was educated in the United States. and the Philippines.
Career
His ancestry was Filipino with slight admixture of Chinese. He was baptized in 1906 at the age of thirteen in San Isidro, Luzon by Bishop Georgia He became a Member in Full Connection of the Philippine Islands Annual Conference in 1918. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop Eveland and Elder by Bishops Stuntz and J.W. Robinson.
Alejandro was the first delegate to the Central Conference of Southern Asia.
Prior to his election to the Episcopacy he served as an evangelist, an educator, a pastor and an editors He was elected a Bishop during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
Thus, he was not consecrated until 1946 (ie, after liberation). He served the Manila Episcopal Area of the Philippines Central Conference of The Methodist Church.
He was the Presiding Bishop of the Philippines and the Northern Philippines Annual Conferences.
Dionisio Alejandro was the first president of Philippine Wesleyan College (now Wesleyan University (Philippines)) from 1946 - 1947. Sketch by Attorney Juan Nabong, Journal, 1944 (also in the Methodist Bishops" Collection at Southern Methodist University). (a typed copy of which also in the Methodist Bishops" Collection at Southern Methodist University).
