Gilbert Luis R. Centina III place of death León
Roman Catholic Priesthood
Centina was an Augustinian friar under the Spanish circumscription of the Madrid-based Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines. In 2020, he became a charter member of the Augustinian Province of St. John of Sahagún of Spain which was formed when the Philippine province and three other provinces in Spain and Portugal united into a single circumscription.
After his ordination to the priesthood, he briefly served as a missionary in Peru. He taught literature as a professorial lecturer, served as a school chaplain for many years and as the first pastor of Filipino ancestry of Holy Rosary Church (Manhattan) in East Harlem, New York.Along the way, he authored hundreds of newspaper columns and magazine articles as well as edited a scholarly journal on St. Augustine and contributed poetry and fiction to literary publications. He lived and worked in Spain for seven years, from 2013 until his death in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. His assignment at the Augustinian-run parish of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Neguri near Bilbao was cut short by an illness which necessitated his transfer to Colegio Andrés de Urdaneta in Loui, Vizcaya in September 2018 and to Colegio de Nuestra Madre del Buen Consejo in León in July the following year.
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