Location: Kalibo, Aklan
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1957
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
ARCHBISHOP GABRIEL M. REYES
FIRST CONSECRATED FILIPINO ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA, BORN IN KALIBO, AKLAN, ON 24 MARCH 1892 SON OF EULOGIO REYES AND MANUELA MARTELINO, ORDAINED PRIEST IN JARO, ILOILO, 1905. CHANCELLOR SECRETARY OF BISHOP JAMES P. MELLOSKY OF JARO (1920-1927) VICAR GENERAL OF THE DIOCESE OF JARO, 1927-1932. BISHOP OF CEBU, 1932-1934. FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF CEBU, 1934-1949. TRANSFERRED TO METROPOLITAN SEE OF MANILA AS ARCHBISHOP COADJUTOR 1949. CONSECRATED ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA, 19 MARCH 1950.
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