Career
Vicente Salgado y Garrucho received on the 23rd of December 1961, the priestly ordination. On the 30th May 1988, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II Bishop of Romblon. The Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Bruno Torpigliani, consecrated him on 25 July of the same year.
Company-consecrators were Alberto Jover Piamonte, archbishop of Jaro and Antonio Yapsutco Fortich, Bishop of Bacolod.
On the 30th January 1997 the Pope accepted his age-related resignation. At the age of 69 years he died on 9 April 2005.