Antonio C. Delgado

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Antonio C. Delgado
Philippines Ambassador to the Vatican
In office
1982–1988
Personal details
Born(1917-12-21)December 21, 1917
San Pablo, Laguna, Philippine Islands
DiedDecember 7, 1992(1992-12-07) (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]

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Early life

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

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:

In the 1950s, Delgado became director of:

In the 1960s, Delgado was elected to:

Recognitions

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.

Scouting

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

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

Delgado died December 7, 1992, of natural causes at home in Makati, Metro Manila, fourteen days before his 75th birthday.

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