FR. MANNY Ediza was born on June 17, 1954, the second among five children born to Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Ediza. His mother, Segunda, is a retired schoolteacher. His father, Augustine, was a World War II veteran who became a schoolteacher, a school principal, and a politician.
At the age of twelve, Father Manny entered the seminary with five friends but without the intention of becoming a priest. He said that his ambition in life while he was a kid was to become a doctor of medicine. However, he finished high school in Pope John XXXIII Seminary, Cebu City, Philippines at the age of sixteen. He pursued his college studies in the seminary, and graduated college in San Carlos Seminary College in Cebu City, Philippines in 1974.
His bishop, the late Julio Cardinal Rosales, discovered in him the good material for priesthood, and sent him to Divine Word Seminary in Tagaytay City, Philippines to continue his four year-theological studies (1974-1979).
On June 1, 1979, Fr. Manny was ordained to the priesthood by the late Archbishop of Cebu, Philippines, His Eminence Julio Cardinal Rosales. Conferred on him on that day too was an “STB Degree (Baccalaureate of Sacred Theology),” with Cum Laude honor in it by Pontifica Universitas Urbaniza, Rome.
From 1979 to 1983, Father Manny worked in his home diocese in Cebu, Philippines as an Associate Pastor then became pastor of the same parish.
Father Manny’s hunger for missionary work and idealism drove him to ask permission from his new bishop, Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu, Philippines to work in the mission. Cardinal Vidal sent him to Paua New Guinea for about ten years (late part of 1983 to 1993). In those years, Father Manny was appointed a pastor and later added to his pastorate was another responsibility. Father Manny was appointed a Diocesan Director for Catholic Schools. Later on, Father Manny was appointed Chaplain of the University of Papua New Guinea.
In 1994, after ten years and having completed his contract in the mission, Father Manny came to the United States for vacation. However, with the permission of his Bishop, Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, he ended up working for the Diocese of San Diego with the endorsement of Father Jovencio Ricafort, his good friend while still in the seminary.
From 1994 to 1996, Father Manny was an Associate Pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Mira Mesa (San Diego), California. In 1996, Father Manny was appointed as Chaplain of Sharp Memorial and Children’s Hospital. In November 2003, Bishop Robert H. Brom incardinated him into the Diocese of San Diego. Since then, he was assigned to St. Kieran in El Cajon (2004 to 2006), then to St. Mary’s in El Centro as the Pastor (2006 to 2007), and currently as Pastor to St. Michael Church in Paradise Hills, San Diego.
His academic achievements are as follows:
* Certified Supervisory Pastoral Management (2007)
* CPE – Clinical Pastoral Education (1997 and 1998)
* STB – Baccalaureate of Sacred Theology, Cum Laude (1979)
* Media and Communication (1978)
* Business and Pastoral Administration (1977)
* AB-BSEE in Philosophy (1974)
He speaks the following languages:
* English
* Spanish
* Tagalog (Philippine national language)
* Cebuano (his mother’s tongue)
* Pidgin (Papua New Guinea national language)
* Motu (one of the many languages in Papua New Guinea)
* Latin (read and understand)
* Greek (a little)
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