FACULTY of Canon Law Dean Fr. Isaias Antonio Tiongco, O.P. has been appointed acting vice rector of the University.
He replaces Fr. Richard Ang, O.P., who was named the 97th UST Rector on May 7.
Tiongco, who has a doctorate in canon law from the Universidad de Navarra in Spain, concurrently serves as dean of the Faculty of Canon Law.
He served as regent of UST-Alfredo M. Velayo College of Accountancy from November 2007 to May 2020.
Tiongco, who is 62 years old, earned his bachelor’s degree in commerce major in accountancy at the University of the Assumption in 1978.
The Thomasian canon lawyer specializes on sources of canon law, the temporal goods of the Church and sanctions in the Church, according his profile on the Ecclesiastical Faculties website.
The vice rector acts on behalf of the Rector in the latter’s absence or incapacity, and becomes acting rector when the position becomes vacant.
He also exercises powers as delegated by the Rector.
Under the vice rector’s supervision are the UST Archives, the Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies, the Miguel de Benavides Library, the UST Museum, the UST Health Service, the Human Resource Department, the Office of Student Affairs, the manpower and scholarship committees, the retirement board, and the UST in-house counsel and legal coordinator. with reports from Joenner Paulo L. Enriquez, O.P.
