Fr. Sergio “Serge” C. Maniba has been assigned to Christ the King Parish Greenmeadows as guest priest since July 11, 2016. He had been a Diocesan Priest at the Diocese of San Jose, Antique.
Fr. Serge is now in Metro Manila taking up his PhD in Theology, majoring in Missiology, at the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia (ICLA), run by the Claretians in Tandang Sora Avenue. He had just started his second term of what should be a two-year stint. Prior to this, he had received his Licentiate and before that, from 2008 to 2010, he completed his MA at Mary Claret College.
Fr. Serge’s classes are usually in the evenings which give him a little bit of time to attend to the 6 am and 7 am daily masses, sacrament needs, or small Bible Study groups in the morning or early afternoon when he’s not doing homework and research. His weekends are free which allows him to take on three to four of the 10 weekend masses.
Fr. Serge finished college at St. Anthony’s College then did his BA Theology at San Jose Seminary. From 1996 to 2008 when he pursued his MA in Manila, he had always been assigned to Antique, serving as parish priest for 12 years, chaplain of the local Diocesan college, and Diocesan youth director. This is Fr. Serge’s second stint as guest priest, since he had been assigned to the UP parish in 2008 and 2009 while doing his MA.
