Installed 2004 Nationality Filipino Died 17 September 2016 Ordination 1954 Term ended 2006 | Predecessor Francisco Raval Cruces Denomination Roman Catholic Province Zamboanga City | |
See Archdiocese of Zamboanga Birth name Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos Born December 12, 1930 ( 1930-12-12 ) Previous post | ||
Carmelo Dominador Flores Morelos (December 12, 1930 – September 17, 2016) was a Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Morelos was appointed as the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Butuan in the Philippines in 1967 serving the diocese until 1994 when he transferred to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zamboanga. He served as the archdiocese's bishop until his retirement in 2006.
Morelos also served at the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines as its president from 1991 to 1995 and was named the chairman of the Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference twice. He was also one of the reported candidates to succeed then retiring Manila Archibishop Jaime Sin who was then set to vacate his post on August 2003.
He died of age-related illness in September 17, 2016.