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The President of the University of San Carlos is the head administrator and chief executive officer of the University of San Carlos (USC), Cebu City. The president is elected by the University's ten-member Board of Trustees, which the president is a member of. As chief executive officer, the president appoints the vice presidents, chaplain, deans, registrar, principals, and other officers of the University. Presidents generally serve three-year terms, and are qualified for re-election indefinitely.
The current president of the University is San Carlos is the Very Rev. Fr. Francisco Antonio T. Estepa, SVD.
History
[edit]Secular Rectors of the Real Seminario de San Carlos (1825 - 1867)
[edit]The Office of the President of the University of San Carlos traces in roots in the office of the Rector of the Real Seminario de San Carlos, which was founded in 1783 by Bishop Mateo Joaquin Rubio de Arevalo of the Diocese of Cebu. Despite the founding of the Seminary in 1783, there were no permanent faculty members during the first few years of its operation, as hardly anyone was trained for seminary administration and theological teaching. In 1825, the Seminary's first rector, Fr. José Morales del Rosario, was appointed by Bishop Francisco Genoves, and was followed by a series of secular rectors until 1867.
Vincentian Rectors (1867 - 1935)
[edit]The royal decree of Queen Isabel II of Spain (1830-1904) dated 19 October 1852 mandated the establishment of the Congregation of the Mission in the Philippine Islands “so that they should take charge of the teaching and administration of the Conciliar Seminaries.” With this, Bishop Romualdo Jimeno of Cebu invited the Padres Paules (Vincentians) to take over the Seminary in 1863. In 1867, the Seminary, which was previously renamed as the Seminario Conciliar de San Carlos, was formally turned over to Fr. José Casarramona, CM., who became the rector. On May 15, 1867, under the rectorate of Fr. Casarramona, the Seminary allowed externs (lay non-seminarians) to study as externs (colegiales), marking the beginning of the Seminario-Colegio which later became the University of San Carlos.
Under the Vincentian rectorship, the Seminary and College were made into separate institutions in response to Pope Pius XI's apostolic letter Officiorum omnium, which decreed that "seminaries should serve no other purpose than that for which they were founded."
SVD Rectors and Presidents (1935 - present)
[edit]The Colegio de San Carlos was turned over to the Fathers of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in 1935. The first SVD rector was Fr. Arthur F. Dingman, SVD., who is the namesake of the main building of the University's Downtown Campus, located along P. del Rosario Street. The Colegio was elevated to university status in 1948, during Fr. Dingman's second term.
In 1964, the rectorate was re-established as the Office of the University President, with Fr. Rudolph Rahmann, SVD being the president. In 197, Fr. Rahmann was succeeded by Fr. Amante Castillo, SVD., the University's first Filipino president. As of 2024, every president since Fr. Castillo's presidency has been Filipino.
The longest serving president has been Fr. Dionisio M. Miranda, SVD (2008-2020), who was elected as USC's first President Emeritus in 2023.
List of Rectors and Presidents
[edit]Secular Rectors (1825 - 1867)
[edit]- Fr. José Morales del Rosario
- Fr. Miguel Nicolas Carmelo
- Fr. Mariano de los Santos
- Fr. Esteban Meneses
- Fr. Bernardo Yubal
- Fr. Clemente Espina
- Fr. Laureano Rivera
- Fr. Leon Ezequil Aguilar
Vincentian Rectors (1867 - 1935)
[edit]- Fr. José Casarramona, CM.
- Fr. Antonio Farré, CM.
- Fr. Francisco Jarrero, CM.
- Fr. Pedro Juliá, CM.
- Fr. Jacinto Villalain, CM.
- Fr. Pedro Angulo, CM.
SVD Rectors (1935 - 1964)
[edit]- Fr. Arthur F. Dingman, SVD.
- Fr. Enrique Ederle, SVD.
- Fr. Arthur F. Dingman, SVD.
- Fr. Lawrence W. Bunzel, SVD.
- Fr. Albert van Gansewinkel, SVD.
- Fr. Herman Kondring, SVD.
- Fr. Harold Rigney, SVD.
SVD Presidents (1964 - present)
[edit]- Fr. Rudolph Rahmann, SVD.
- Fr. Amante Castillo, SVD.
- Fr. Margarito Alingasa, SVD.
- Fr. Gregorio I. Pizarro, SVD.
- Fr. Florante Caacho, SVD.
- Fr. Roderick Salazar, Jr., SVD.
- Fr. Ernesto Lagura, SVD.
- Fr. Francisco Antonio T. Estepa, SVD.
- Fr. Roderick Salazar, Jr., SVD.
- Fr. Dionisio M. Miranda, SVD.
- Fr. Narciso A. Cellan, Jr., SVD.
- Fr. Francisco Antonio T. Estepa, SVD.