(19 May 1885 – 8 October 1972) was a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church and was the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Jaro in the Philippines.

His mother largely raised Jose's 15 sisters and brothers, among them, Mariano Jesús and Miguel, who became a senator and congressman respectively.

He also graduated from Georgetown University in the United States,[2][3] where he earned a doctorate in law.

[6] Four years after, he succeeded James Paul McCloskey as Ordinary concurrent with the elevation of the see as a metropolitan, which effectively made him its first archbishop.

He authored and published close to a dozen books, mostly narratives of his travels and experiences, including Archbishop Cuenco: Autobiography (Iloilo: La Editorial, 1972), which came out shortly before he died in Jaro on 8 October 1972.