FORMER Dominican prior provincial Fr. Napoleon Sipalay, O.P. has been named vice rector of the UST Central Seminary.
Sipalay replaces Fr. Cecilio Vladimir Magboo, O.P., the master of students at the Dominican house of studies at Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City.
As vice rector, he will assist Fr. Quirico Pedregosa, O.P., rector of the UST Central Seminary, and will work as the official bursar or financial administrator and the immediate formator for the students in the seminary.
Sipalay became the 12th prior provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines and the University vice chancellor in 2016. Fr. Filemon de la Cruz, Jr., O.P. was elected as the new provincial in January.
Sipalay professed in the Dominican Order in 1991 and was ordained priest in 1997.
He studied philosophy at the Philippine Dominican Center of Institutional Studies in 1992 and earned his bachelor’s degree in sacred theology at the University in 1995. He finished his licentiate in 1997.
From 2006 to 2015, he became a missionary in Sri Lanka where he taught the theology of consecrated life at the National Seminary of Our Lady of Lanka in Kandy.
He also served as secretary to the Committee for Religious Formation of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2015.
Sipalay was previously prior of the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Manaoag, Pangasinan.
