Antonio C. Delgado
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Antonio C. Delgado | |
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| Philippines Ambassador to the Vatican | |
| In office 1982–1988 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 21, 1917 San Pablo, Laguna, Philippine Islands |
| Died | December 7, 1992 (aged 74) Makati, Philippines |
| Education | University of Santo Tomas (BS) |
Antonio Concepcion Delgado (December 21, 1917 – December 7, 1992) was a Filipino industrialist and civic leader who served as the Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican. He served as acting president of the Philippine Chamber of Industries.[1]
Early life
[edit]Antonio Delgado was born in San Pablo, Laguna, the fourth of eight children of physician Jose Maria Delgado (the first Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican) and Felisa Concepcion.[2]
Delgado graduated as valedictorian from San Beda College in 1933 and received his Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas in 1937. He served with the Philippine Army and as a guerrilla fighter during World War II. He married Nellie Chuidian in 1945, and they had four children: Jose Roberto, Lolita, Jose Antonio, and Jose Eduardo.
On July 28, 1963, Jose Antonio died along with the rest of the Philippine contingent to the 11th World Scout Jamboree in Marathon, Greece—19 other Boy Scouts, three Scoutmasters, and a Chaplain—when their plane crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Bombay, India. His parents established the Jose Antonio Delgado Memorial Foundation, Inc. (also known as the Ala-Ala Foundation) with the insurance money.
Business
[edit]In 1946, Delgado founded ACD, Inc., and in 1949 he established Delgado Brothers, Inc. Delgado Brothers, Inc. became the largest fully integrated transportation company in the Philippines.[3] He founded nine other companies:
- Caltex Floating Station (CFS)
- Delgado Stevedoring (DelSteve)
- Delgado Overland Corporation (DelLand)
- Delgado Brokerage Corporation (DelBroCO)
- Delgado Air Cargo (DelAir)
- Delgado Shipyard Corporation (DelYard)
- United Services Corporation (DelTrade)
- Wood-Mosaic (Phil), Inc.
- Delgado Brothers Hotel Corporation, (DBHC) which owned the Manila Hilton (the first 5-star hotel in the Philippines and the tallest building in the country during the late 1960s into the 1970s)
In the 1950s, Delgado became director of:
- Private Development Corporation of the Philippines (PDCP)
- Meralco
- First United Bank
- Republic Cement Corporation
- Philippine Radio Educational and Information Center (Radio Veritas)
In the 1960s, Delgado was elected to:
- Philippine Chamber of Industries – President
- Industrial Finance Committee – Chairman
- Chamber of Commerce – Member
- Management Association of the Philippines – President
- Philippine Council of Management – Board Governor
- American Management Association – Member
Recognitions
[edit]Delgado received awards from various organizations: In 1954, Delgado was named Employer of the Year and in 1959 he was named Business Executive of the Year by the Business Writers Association of the Philippines.
- Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1970
- Bronze Wolf Award, World Organization of the Scout Movement, 1971, conferred at the 22nd World Scout Conference in Otaniemi, Finland[4]
- Golden Pheasant Award, Scout Association of Japan, 1973[5]
- Silver Tamaraw for Scouting volunteers, Boy Scouts of the Philippines
- Silver Fir Medal of Merit, Boy Scouts of Austria
- Bronze Usa and Gold Medal of Merit, Boy Scouts of the Philippines
- Presidential Gold Plaque, for services rendered for the 10th World Scout Jamboree
- Gran Cruz de la Orden del Merito Civil, Spanish Government
- Knight Commander of the Star of St. Silvester
- Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
- Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX
- Grand Cross "Pro Melitense," Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Pilgrim Medal (Jerusalem) of Pope Leo XII
- Doctorate in Canon Law and Civil Law, Honoris Causa, Pontifical Lateran University
Scouting
[edit]At fifteen, Delgado was a member of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines contingent to the 4th World Scout Jamboree in Gödöllő, Hungary in 1933. Thirty-five years later, he became President of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. At the 1971 World Scout Conference in Tokyo, Japan, he became the first Asian to be elected Chairman of the World Scout Committee.
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines states that Delgado conceived the World Scout Emblem during his time as the first Asian World Scout Committee chairman from 1971 to 1973.[6] However, the design was introduced at the 8th World Scout Jamboree in 1955, based on a 1939 earlier design by J. S. Wilson.[7]
His son, industrialist Jose Eduardo Delgado, has been a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines and is a recipient of the Silver Tamaraw Award.
Faith
[edit]Antonio Delgado served as Philippine Ambassador to the Holy See from 1975 to 1982, just as his father, Jose Maria Delgado, did from 1957 to 1961. Delgado searched for a possible first Filipino Saint. He championed the cause of Lorenzo Ruiz, martyred in Japan in the 17th century, and worked for the beatification of Ruiz and his companions by Pope John Paul II in Manila on February 18, 1981. This was the first time in centuries that such rites were held outside Rome. Delgado retired in 1982 and subsequently served as Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Philippines from 1982 to 1988. He authored The Making of the First Filipino Saint in 1982, which was published in 1987. Delgado commissioned the Vatican Mosaic Studio to create an image of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, which is now installed at the Altar of the Martyrdom, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
Death
[edit]Delgado died December 7, 1992, of natural causes at home in Makati, Metro Manila, fourteen days before his 75th birthday.
References
[edit]- ^ "GLOBALIZATION AND THE PHILIPPINE SPACE ECONOMY", Landscapes of Globalization, Routledge, pp. 47–72, 2012-10-02, ISBN 978-0-203-02169-9, retrieved 2024-12-21
- ^ "Stewardship". Delbros Group of Companies. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
- ^ "Aboitiz to Zobel: The Most Powerful Families of the Philippines". Town & Country Philippines. November 8, 2016. Retrieved 2024-12-21 – via Esquiremag.ph.
- ^ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ 䝪䞊䜲䝇䜹䜴䝖日本連盟 きじ章受章者 [Recipient of the Golden Pheasant Award of the Scout Association of Japan] (PDF). Reinanzaka Scout Club (in Japanese). 2014-05-23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-11.
- ^ [dead link]
- ^ John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 268
External links
[edit]- French Scoutopedia article
- Archived 2008-06-23 at library.georgetown.edu (Error: unknown archive URL)
- Archived 2008-08-29 at ops.gov.ph (Error: unknown archive URL)