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Alejandro Turla Quiboloy (1909-1990), Filipino, educator, public servant, veteran, and protestant minsiter was born in
Lubao, Pampanga on May 3, 1901 to Dioniso and Anastacia Quiboloy.
Quiboloy grew up in Pampanga and studied at Pampanga
High School and Magalang Agricultural School with honors. He earned his BS degrees at the National University and Arellano
University in Manila. He took his MA at the Arellano University.
During World War II, he served as adviser to the USAFFE
in Central Luzon.
Quiboloy became the principal at the Lubao Institute, Northwesthern Academy of Pampanga and Angeles
University. He was also a college professor at Guagua National Colleges, Angeles University, and some universities in Manila.
He
became the No. 1 councilor in Lubao. He made time-out from his duties whenever he attended to public functions and engagements.
He accepted speaking engagements at the invitations of various institutions. He attended meetings, round-table conferences
and open forums sponsored by private and public schools. He has been active in the welfare of his community, especially in
the field of health and sanitation, charity, peace and order, and family living. He was an active member of the Free and Accepted
Masons, the Knights of Rizal, Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Husband and Wife Club, Santa Catalina Rural Improvement Association,
United Church Men, and others.
In 1962 the Presidential Assistant on Community Development (PACD) hired
him as Provincial CD Officer and became the regional officer in Central Luzon.
During the Macapagal administration,
Cong Dadong transferred him and became the Regional Director, Region III at NACIDA with offices at Lubao, Pampanga.
When
he retired as a public servant, Quiboloy was ordained and became a protestant minister at UCCP. He wrote a large number of
moral and religious tracts in prose and verse. He also wrote several articles at the Philippine Free Press during his time.
His formal education was a stepping stone to his religious life. His close association with the youth kindled the flame
of his desire to be a preacher. The prayers and intercession, and the conselling and guidance of his father-in-law brought
him closer and made him more sympathetic to the Faith. People wondered why. His intimates were puzzled why he preferred the
tideous and non-salaried work of an exhorter to the profession that had a promise. To him the spiritual was more valuable
than the material. This is a paradox to the world but not to him. His philosopy in life was to serve, and to serve God with
all his powers and capabilities. Genuine love for others even at a personal sacrifice was now a pattern cutting deep in his
life.
In 1960, Quiboloy helped his father-in-law Bishop Roberto P. Songco to organize and establish The Children's Training
for Christian Growth and Adult Education Center in Lubao. The Center began with a few pupils, with six teachers who were paid
"gratis et amore", its faculty counts on competent, experienced former and present public and private school teachers, with
Bishop Songco as director and chaplain.
His wife Consuelo Songco, a reliable housewife and deaconess died in 1977,
leaving him with two sons and two daughters. Elmore, Edwin, Eden Jocelyn and Erlene Rose.
With painstaking planning
and labor, the family of Alejandro Quiboloy accomplished some projects which are as follows:
1. Yearly donations for
Philippine Bible Society, Philippine National
Red Cross, Far East Broadcasting Company and other institutions.
2. Voluntary
aid to deserving sick and indigent persons.
3. Scholarship to 10 deserving students from high school to college.
4.
Community development projects.
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The life of the late Alejandro T. Quiboloy is a
brief but faithful sketch of his biography. Coming from a life more abject than that of common men, Quiboloy rose from the
ranks and may well serve as a source of inspiration and emulation to many a youth.
Acknowledgement is due to the people
of Lubao for their research work on the subject and assistance to every stage of this enterprise, and to all persons who,
in one way or another, helped to make this biographical sketch possible.
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