Horacio de la Costa, Foreign Missionaries, and the Quest for Filipinization: The Church in the Age of Decolonization

• Main Authors: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr, Sy, Nicholas
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Horacio de la Costa; nationalism; religious orders; American Jesuits; Ateneo de Manila University; History; History of Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/10; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=history-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Fr. Horacio de la Costa became the first Filipino Superior of the Jesuit Province in the Philippines (1964–1970) at a time when the Filipinization of religious orders was intensely contested. As a young priest, De la Costa sought the training of more Filipino priests so that the Catholic Church woul...