Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz

Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz, OAR was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Pasto from 1895 to 1906.

He was a member of the Order of Augustinian Recollects and previously served as a missionary to the Philippines and as Vicar Apostolic of Casanare in Colombia.

Born April 9, 1848[3] in the city of Alfaro, La Rioja, Spain to Félix Moreno and María Josefa Díaz, he was the third of six children.

[5] In the middle that year, Moreno sailed on to the Visayan town of Jaro, Iloilo where he received and finished his minor orders.

During the three years that Ezequiel Moreno remained in this mission, he went through an epidemic, a drought and a fire, to which he responded with care to the sick and helping those left in extreme poverty with money, rice and clothing.

[5] This saintly way of life that he exemplified caused the people of Las Piñas to oppose his transfer to Santo Tomás, Batangas.

The people of Santo Tomas also made an appeal to suspend the order but just as in Las Piñas, their request was not granted.

He expressed in his pastoral letters, the defense of what he believed in, with the purpose of making clear the commitments of a Catholic, above political affiliations.

Devotional statue of St. Ezequiel Moreno at the Basilica Minore de San Sebastian , Manila.