Romulo T. de la Cruz

Romulo Tolentino de la Cruz (June 24, 1947 – December 10, 2021), was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.

[3] On December 17, 1988, Pope John Paul II appointed Father Romulo Dela Cruz as Coadjutor Bishop of the Prelature of Isabela de Basilan.

The following year he was ordained to the episcopacy on March 16, 1988, with the then Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Bruno Torpigliani, as the principal consecrator, and assisted by Archbishop Philip Francis Smith, OMI (Cotabato) and Bishop-Emeritus José María Querejeta Mendizábal, CMF (Isabela de Basilan) as co-consecrators.

Bishop Dela Cruz was appointed Coadjutor of San Jose de Antique on Jan. 8, 2001 and installed on April 3, 2001.

[6] Archbishop Romulo De la Cruz died on December 10, 2021, at the age of 74, two days after celebrating the forty-ninth year of his priestly ordination.