03/02/2026
PROCAT presents
"REV. FR. DINDO REI M. TESORO, S. Th.D.:
One of the PILLARS of the Pius XII Catechetical Institute and ACCCE
Very Rev. Fr. Dindo M. Tesoro, S.Th.D., the 13th Director of PIUS XII Institute of Catechetics and Social Studies was born to a family of educators. His father former City Schools Superintendent, Mr. Joaquin Donado Tesoro and his mother Diosdada Monsale is a retired school principal. He was born on 16th of July 1957 in Miag-ao, Iloilo. He finished his elementary education at West Visayas State College Laboratory School in 1970. In 1974 he earned his high school diploma at Saint Joseph Junior Seminary, graduating as the Class Salutatorian. In 1978 he finished his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary, Cum Laude. He was courageous enough to answer God’s call to follow Jesus embracing a priestly vocation, so he proceeded to St. Joseph Regional Seminary and graduated in 1982. On March 16 of the same year he was also ordained to the priesthood by His Grace the late Archbishop of Jaro, Most Rev. Alberto J. Piamonte.
To quench his thirst for more knowledge and to be a good priest and administrator, Fr. Dindo enrolled at Southeast Asia Inter-Disciplinary Institute in Manila in 1982. He took up his Educational Management at De La Salle University from 1986-87. He underwent the Formators’ Institute on Spirituality in Cebu in 1988. Fr. Dindo never tired in searching for the truth and venturing into the higher levels of learning. In 1999 he obtained his Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the University of Navarre in Spain, Sobresaliente Cum Laude. In 2001 he earned his doctorate degree with flying colors: Sobresaliente Cum Laude.
Fr. Tesoro was also given various pastoral assignments. He was the director of Catechetics for Northern Iloilo from 1982-85, a chaplain for both the De La Salle Brothers Community and Sta. Catalina College from 1986-87. He was a former Professor, Dean of Studies-Principal and Vice Rector of Saint Vincent Ferrer Seminary from 1988-93. In 1994 until 1996 he was the director of Saint Julian Academy in Janiuay at the same time the President of the Iloilo Private School Educators’ Association. During summer breaks of 1997-2001, he was assigned as the Parish Assistant of St. Anthony and St. Victor Church Guam, USA and from second semester 2001 up to first semester of 2002-03 as Professor/Pastoral Director of St. Joseph Regional Seminary at the same time parish assistant of Sta. Monica Parish, Pavia, Iloilo from February to October 2002.
Fr. Dindo is Church History Professor of St. Joseph Regional Seminary, aside from being Director of PIUS XII Institute. He is also the Chairman of the Archdiocesan Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education (ACCCE).
The Institute has a dynamic, optimistic and brilliant director, a priest who, for 21 long years of consecrated life, had always been a sincere and honest man, a priest who has a ready smile for everyone, whose name is untainted by any cloud of doubt as to his character, morality and integrity. In his hands lie the future of PIUS XII Institute of Catechetics and Social Studies. Fr. Dindo assumed his office last October 2002 and served as the last School Director until it closed eventually.
Fr. Dindo, your DREAM of re-opening PIUS XII Institute may not rely on our hands but on how the Holy Spirit inspire our Church's hierarchy and community. But you did your part very wel.. SALUTE to you Fr. Dindo! Be our INTERCESSOR there in heaven.
May your dream for ACCCE and the Catechetical Programs of the Archdiocese of Jaro attain its full realization. Amen.
.dindotesoro
