Background
Pedro Rosales Dean, Junior. was born in Calbayog City, Samar. He grew up in Manila.
Pedro Rosales Dean, Junior. was born in Calbayog City, Samar. He grew up in Manila.
Studied at Saint Paul"s Institution (now Street Paul"s University) in Herran (now Pedro Gil) Street, Malate, Manila and at Paco catholic School, in Paco Manila.
On 1946, at the age of 16, he entered the Minor Seminary of San Vicente de Paul, Calbayog City, under the Padres Paules. On June, 1950 he entered the Central Seminary, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, to take up Philosophy and Theology. He obtained Licentiate"s Degree in Philosophy on March, 1953 at UST and became Cum Laude.
March, 1957, obtained Licentiate"s Degree in Theology, UST.
Pedro was ordained priest on 30 November 1956 by the Most Review
Julio R. Rosales Archbishop of Cebu, at a Mass Ordination in Manila during the II National Eucharistic Congress. Almost a year after his ordination as priest, he was appointed as a Private Secretary to the Archbishop of Cebu, Julio Cardinal Rosales, from 1958 to 1977.
He was appointed as the Archdiocesan Oeconomus from 1958 until 1977. Appointed Vicar Forane of the Vicarial District of Santo Niño in Cebu, promoted as Honorary Prelate, elevated to Protonotary Apostolic Supernumerary, and appointed as parish priest of San Nicolas, Cebu City.
Pope Paul VI appointed Dean as Titular Bishop of Thuccabora and Auxiliary Bishop to Archbishop Antonio Lloren Mabutas, the Archbsihop of Davao on 12 December 1977.
On 25 January 1978, Msgr. He was welcomed to the Archdiocese of Davao, installed as Parish Priest of San Pedro Cathedral, Davao City and appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Davao on 28 February 1978. Two Years passed, he was transferred to the Prelature Nullius of Tagum and was appointed as first Diocesan Bishop of Tagum when in the same Degree of Pope Paul VI the Prelature was elevated to Diocese and installed on 29 October 1980.
He received the pallium from the hands of Pope John Paul II on the Solemn Ceremony on the Feast of Saints
Peter and Paul at Saint Peter"s Basilica on 29 June 1986. During his incumbency, he founded the Saint John the Evangelist School of Theology in 1988 and constructed the Archdiocesan Chancery during the 90s.
Liturgy
Family Social Action
Doctrine of Faith
Special Committee on Finance. On March 18, 2006, Pope Benedict accepted Archbishop Dean"s resignation and appointed the Bishop of Calbayog, Bishop Jose South. Palma.
Archbishop Dean was 76 when he retired.
He was a former Member of the following Episcopal Commissions:
He was elected as member of the Administrative Board (now Permanent Council) from 1986 to 1988 and re-elected from 1989 to 1991.And on 1993, he was elected Chairman of the Commission on Doctrine of Faith, and Member of the Commission on Clergy.