After a long battle with cancer, Leonardo Legaspi, former Caceres archbishop and also former president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), passed away on Friday morning at the age of 78.

Legaspi was also the first Filipino rector of the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST) from 1971 to 1977.

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