Vatican confirms De la Rosa: UST’s 95th rector to be installed June 10

Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P. will officially become the Quadricentennial Rector of UST after the Vatican formally confirmed his election as rector of UST for an unprecedented third term. Previously he was rector for two consecutive terms, 1991-1994 and 1995-1998.

Half a year after being elected by fellow Dominicans and UST deans, De la Rosa finally got the blessing from Rome to serve for at least four more years as rector.

Pedregosa named top RP Dominican

The Dominicans, after plunging into a bitter dispute over how to redevelop the University hospital, is now seeking “closure” to the controversy that led to a leadership shakeup in both UST and the Philippine Dominican Province last year.

In an indication of an emerging consensus on how to proceed with the UST Hospital expansion plan, which was halted last year to make way for a thorough review, Filipino Dominicans elected Fr. Quirico Pedregosa, O.P. as prior provincial in their quadrennial provincial chapter in Bicol last month.