Retired Bishop of the Philippines and Biblical Scholar
to Speak at Foundry March 3
Bishop Daniel C. Arichea, Jr., of the Philippines
will speak at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC, Sunday, March
3, at the 9:30 and 11 a.m. worship services.
Bishop Arichea was elected to the episcopacy in 1994 and
served as bishop of the Baguio Episcopal Area in the Philippines until 2000. He
was recalled to active service as the bishop of the Middle Philippines Annual
Conference in January 2010, an assignment he has just completed. In addition to
his recent recall to active service as a bishop, he is bishop-in-residence
at Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC, and Union Theological Seminary in the
Philippines where he also teaches New Testament studies.
Before being elected a bishop, he served churches in Bataan
and Manila and then joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary. He was
later a translation consultant for the United Bible Societies , and served in
that capacity in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, and Indonesia and
Malaysia. In 1987 he moved to Hong Kong to assume the office of Regional
Transition Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific Region.
The schools he attended include the University of the
Philippines, Union Theological Seminary and Duke University where he
earned a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies. He also studied linguistics at Ohio State
University and was a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary.
He is married to Ruth Cabralda Mandac, and their marriage is
blessed with three children, Miriam, Stephen, and Michael, and three
grandchildren.
His son Michael Arichea is a member of the Foundry Church
choir and often enhances worship at Foundry with flute solos.
Foundry United Methodist church is located at 16th
and P Streets in Northwest Washington, DC. Reimbursed parking is available for
visitors at the Colonial Parking Garage on P Street between 16th and
17th streets.
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