Mary John MananzanO.S.B. (born November 6, 1937, in Dagupan, Pangasinan) is a Missionary Benedictine nun, activist, educator, theologian, and author. She helped develop an Asian feminist theology of liberation. She ministered as superior of the Manila community and member of the Priory Council.[1]
She has served as president of Saint Scholastica's College for six years and dean for 18 years, prioress of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the Manila Priory, and national chairperson of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines.
She also co-founded GABRIELA, federation of women's organizations and served as its national chairperson for 18 years.[3]
Education
Mananzan has a doctorate degree in Philosophy major in Linguistic Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. She also has a degree in Missiology at the Wilhelmsuniversitaet in Munster, Germany.[5]
Mananzan studied at St. Scholastica's College in Manila from high school through college, graduating with an AB-BSE degree, major in history.[3]
Stances
Mananzan is known for being feminist. She was one of the Catholics who supported the RH Bill, which guarantees access to contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. The bill was signed by President Benigno Aquino III.[6]
She was also known for her support for SOGIE Equality Bill, known as Equality Bill or Anti-Discrimination Bill (ADB).[7]
Benigno Aquino Jr. Award for Nationalism, Federation of Catholic Schools' Alumnae Association (2011)
100 inspiring persons in the world, Women Deliver (2011, citation given on the occasion of the 100 years of the International Women's day celebration)
Outstanding Woman Leader in Manila, Office of the Mayor of Manila (2009)
Asian Public Intellectual fellowship, Nippon Foundation (2002)
Henry Luce Fellowship at the Union Theological Seminary in New York (1995)
Dorothy Cadbury Fellowship in Birmingham (1994)
The Pontifical Mission Society awarded her the first ever Pauline Jaricot Award in Germany in October 2022, for exemplifying the qualities of St. Pauline Jaricot: ‘living joyfully the vocation that God gave her, teaching a spirit of prayer and loving sacrifice, and bringing mission into every moment.’
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