FR. PAUL Reagan Talavera, O.P. will be the 15th parish priest of the Santisimo Rosario Parish under the Archdiocese of Manila.
The solemn installation rites on June 4 will be presided by Msgr. José Clemente Ignacio, vicar general and moderator curiae of the Archdiocese of Manila.
Talavera is the outgoing regional treasurer of the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines.
He is finishing his term as principal and prefect of discipline of the Angelicum School in Iloilo City. He is also the outgoing secretary of the Association of Religious Men in the Archdiocese of Jaro.
In 2010, he became assistant treasurer of Santo Domingo Parish in Quezon City.
Talavera will replace Fr. Louie Coronel, O.P. who served the Santisimo Rosario Parish for three years and was appointed regent of the College of Science in February.
He finished his bachelor’s degree in theological studies at UST in 2007 and his master’s degree at De La Salle University in 2011.
The Santisimo Rosario Parish, which also serves as the University chapel, became a parish on March 21, 1942 by decree of Manila Archbishop Michael O’ Dougherty.
