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Tomasa Manalo

first wife of Felix Manalo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ21070464 ↗
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Tomasa Sereneo-Manalo was the first wife of Felix Manalo, the first Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo and regarded by the members of the church as the Last Messenger of God.

In 1910, she married Manalo. They joined Christian Mission or Disciples of Christ and later became active members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Their son died at infancy. Between years 1911 and 1912, she died of infectious tuberculosis.

Tomasa is portrayed on the 2015 epic-biographical film Felix Manalo by the Filipina actress Arci Muñoz.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tomasa Manalo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.