Installed 29 June 1951 Consecration June 18, 1933 | Predecessor none Term ended October 13, 1970 Name James Hayes | |
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Successor Patrick H. Cronin, S.S.C., D.D. Other posts Former Provincial Superior of the Society of JesusTitular Archbishop of Gabii (resigned)First Bishop of Cagayan de OroFounder of Lourdes College (1928) and Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan (1933) Ordination 29 June 1921 (as priest (under the Society of Jesus)) Province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro | ||
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James T. G. Hayes was an American, Roman Catholic, Jesuit archbishop and missionary who served as the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines.
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Background
Born James Thomas Gibbons Hayes on February 11, 1889 in New York City, New York, United States. He attended the St. Francis Xavier College in New York City and Woodstock College in Maryland. He also studied in Tronchiennes, Belgium.
He started a career as a teacher, teaching at Regis High School in New York City. From 1918 to 1919, he taught the Classics at the Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He then served as Dean of Discipline at Fordham University from 1923 to 1925.
Ministry
In 1907, Hayes entered the Society of Jesus. On June 29, 1921, he was ordained priest. He moved to the Philippines to do missionary work in 1926. A year after, he already started serving as the Superior of the Jesuits in Mindanao. By 1930, he became Superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines, a position he held until 1933.
On January 20, 1933, the new diocese of Cagayan de Oro was created by Pope Pius XI through the apostolic constitution "Ad maius religionis". Hayes was appointed as the first bishop of the new diocese and ordained as bishop on March 16, 1933 and June 18, 1933 respectively.
On June 29, 1951, Pope Pius XI elevated the Diocese of Cagayan de Oro to an archdiocese and appointed Hayes as the first Archbishop. He retired on October 13, 1970 and was succeeded by Patrick Cronin. Consequently, he became Archbishop Emeritus of Cagayan de Oro and titular bishop of Gabii. On December 2, 1970, he resigned as Titular bishop of Gabii. He died on March 28, 1980.
Legacy
In 1928, Hayes founded the San Agustin Parochial School, the predecessor of the present Lourdes College in Cagayan de Oro. He then founded boys school Ateneo de Cagayan, now Xavier University, and became its first President. In 1955, he established the San Jose de Mindanao Seminary. In recognition of Archbishop James Hayes' role in the history of Cagayan de Oro, the road traversing from the north wing of the Cagayan de Oro City Hall to the Saint John Vianney Seminary was named after him.