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Atty. Jeremias U. Montemayor, Dean as we call him, was born
on January 23, 1923 in Alaminos, Pangasinan. He was married
to Nieves Quimson and was blessed with ten children.
He finished AB, Summa Cum Laude in 1948 and LI.B., Magna
Cum Laude in 1952 at the Ateneo de Manila University.
He was the founder and president of the Federation of Free
Farmers (FFF) and of the Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives,
Inc. He lectured on Socio-Economics problems, Farmers Organizations
and Catholic Social Teachings. He was participant and delegate
to various conference, colloquia, seminars and dialogues on
social, religious, agrarian, labor, political, legal and cultural
subjects here and abroad.
Formerly, he was Consultor, and later Member, of the Vatican
Council on the Laity (now the Pontifical Council for the Laity)
from 1968 to 1975 with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (now Pope John
Paul II). He was Dean of the College of Law of the Ateneo
de Manila University, Member of the Presidential Committee
that drafted the 1963 Agricultural Land Reform Code, President
of the International Catholic Rural Association, Consultant
on Workers' Education of the International Labor Organization,
Member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa, Minister of State
for Agrarian Reform, Vice-President of the Trade Union Congress
of the Philippines and President Emeritus of National Congress
of Farmers Organization.
Dean Montemayor wrote eleven books on the Philippine socio-economic
problems, labor, agrarian, and social legislation, agrarian
reform, Filipino ideology and Catholic social teaching. The
international edition of the book " Catholic Social Teaching"
is dedicated to our Foundress, Rev. Mother Deolindis Luza,
WCW and the Workers of Christ the Worker. Prior to his death,
Dean Montemayor was writing his autobiography "HOW RICH
IS MY JOURNEY!"
Source - Necrological Service Program
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