Toribio Sabandija Quimada
Filipino Universalist minister (1917-1988)
Toribio Sabandija Quimada (April 27, 1917- May 23, 1988) was a Filipino religious leader and the founder of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines.
Biography
Quimada was born in Cebu, into a Roman Catholic family, and was the second of thirteen children. The family was poor, and his father worked as a carpenter. At the time, the Catholic Church discouraged individual study of the Bible. In 1935, in response to the Great Depression, the family moved from Cebu to Nataban, San Carlos.
In 1937, Quimada and his wife moved in with a Presbyterian cousin, which exposed Quimada to personal reading of the Bible for the first time. Quimada and his family decided to convert to Protestantism in 1943. He was ordained in the Iglesia Universal de Cristo in 1948, and began serving a congregation in Navididan, Prosperidad, San Carlos.
As a minister in Iglesia Universal, Quimada led nine conversations on Negros with limited resources. While searching for external support, in 1951 he began exchanging correspondence with the Universalist Church of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who in turn connected him with the Universalist Service Committee (USC).
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