Nilo Tayag

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Nilo Tayag
Bishop
ChurchPhilippine Independent Church
Orders
Ordination1989
Consecration1993
Personal details
Birth nameNilo Salumbides Tayag
NationalityFilipino
DenominationAglipayan
Known forCo-founding Kabataang Makabayan
Notable work
"On Commitment"[1]

Nilo Tayag is a Filipino bishop of the Philippine Independent Church.[2] He co-founded, along with Jose Maria Sison and others, the Maoist youth group Kabataang Makabayan ("Patriotic Youth") in the 1960s.[3] He was the group's secretary-general and national chairman until he was arrested on June 12, 1970 in San Pablo, Laguna.[1] Detained along with Benito Tiamzon, Jesus Lava and other left-wing personalities at the Youth Rehabilitation Center in Fort Bonifacio, he was released in 1981 or 1982 after pleading guilty to the charge of subversion.[4]

After being released from prison, Tayag undertook theology studies with the Philippine Independent Church (PIC). In January 1988, Tayag and other Ferdinand Marcos loyalists declared their exit from the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan party to form a new party called the Loyalist Party of the Philippines (LPP), of which Tayag was co-vice president with Pacifico de Leon.[5] In 1989, the PIC ordained him a priest, and by 1993 consecrated him as a bishop.[2] He was a prominent supporter of Rodrigo Duterte during the latter's campaign for the Presidency[6] and is a member of the "Democratic Front for Filipinism", a group supporting Duterte's "revolution against illegal drugs, the oligarchs and the exploiters of the Filipino masses."[7]

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  1. ^ a b Pimentel, Benjamin (1991). Rebolusyon!: A Generation of Struggle in the Philippines. NYU Press. p. 98. ISBN 9780853458234.
  2. ^ a b "From guts to Gloria". Philippine Daily Inquirer. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  3. ^ Franco, Jennifer Conroy (2001). Elections and Democratization in the Philippines. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 0-8153-3734-5.
  4. ^ Hilario, Ernesto M. (28 March 2014). "The NPA, a tunnel, and a prison escape plot". Rappler. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Hardcore FM men quit KBL". Manila Standard. Standard Publications, Inc. January 8, 1988. p. 8. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
  6. ^ Holmes, Ronnie (13 May 2016). "Days of Duterte begin". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  7. ^ Vizcarra, Joseph U. (15 August 2016). "Group of ex-rebels calls support for 'Duterte Revolution'". Business World Online. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
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