Dave Capucao
Filipino Roman-Catholic priest
Dave Dean Capucao (born September 25, 1965) is a Filipino Catholic prelate who serves as the fifth Prelate of Infanta in the province of Quezon in the Philippines.
Early life and education
Dave Dean Capucao was born on September 25, 1965, in Naga, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. After joining the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM), he studied philosophy at Saint Louis University in Baguio, followed by theology at Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City.
Capucao was sent to the Netherlands in 2000 and studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (later Radboud University Nijmegen), where he earned a
master's degree in intercultural and interreligious theology in 2002. He later worked as a junior researcher from 2002 to 2006, and defended his doctoral dissertation on religion and ethnocentrism in 2009 at the said university.
He earned a doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) doctorate in sacred theology (SThD) at Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and a PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Ministry
Priesthood
Capucao was ordained a priest for the Territorial Prelature of Infanta on October 3, 1994. Following his ordination, he served as parish priest of Nuestra Señora de Salvacion in Casiguran, Aurora, a post he maintained until 2000.
Upon the invitation of Cardinal Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Capucao remained in the Netherlands in 2006 and was assigned to serve at St. Ludger Parish in Lichtenvoorde.
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