Brother armin altamirano luistro biography of albert

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Its mandate includes approving religious constitutions, establishing and merging religious orders, and handling disciplinary matters involving vowed members.

Prior to his current role as Superior General, Brother Luistro served as President of De La Salle Philippines and as Secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) under the late former President Benigno Aquino III, whose fourth death anniversary was commemorated on June 24.

Master of Arts in Religious Education and Values Education, De La Salle University, 2003.

Graduate, Ateneo de Manila University, 1985. Luistro estimates a lack of 130,000 teachers, 72,000 classrooms, 7 million desks, 141,000 comfort rooms and 96 million books.

As of December 2010, Luistro has the least net worth among Aquino's cabinet.

He moved to La Salle Greenhills in 1986. District vocation director La Salle Provincialate, Mandaluyong City, 1988—1989.

Director La Salle Novitiate, Lipa City, 1993—1997. In the Manila Bulletin interview, he said that teaching was the reason why he entered the congregation.

He started teaching as a religion teacher at De La Salle Lipa in 1983.

Kindergarten was required in 2012 while senior high school is planned to be included in the curriculum by 2016. In his inaugural speech, he acknowledged the "multiversity" concept of Gonzalez who established the system. He instead wanted to focus on streamlining the bureaucracy of DepEd, which employs 600,000 employees (501,158 of which are teachers).

In which structure, DLSU served as the flagship while other De La Salle institutions specialized in fields like agriculture, alternative education and medicine.

He did, however, find the system's structure unfeasible. He attended first grade at Our Lady of the Rosary Academy in Lipa, grades 2 to 5 at Canossa Academy Lipa, and graduated elementary and high school at De La Salle Lipa.

Master of Arts in Religious Education, De La Salle University, Manila, 1993. Meanwhile, Luistro's predecessor, Mona Valisno expressed her confidence with Luistro.

The Department of Education has included sex education in its curriculum for grade 5 to fourth year high school. He was made provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Philippine District on April 1997, a post he held until 2003.

On August 26, 2000, Luistro co-founded the De La Salle Catholic University of Manado, currently known as De La Salle University, in Indonesia with Josef Suwatan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Manado.

DLSU in Manila supervised initial operations before it was transferred to the Philippine District.

On April 2004, he succeeded Andrew Gonzalez as the president of De La Salle University System, consequently making him the president of eight De La Salle institutions. He professed his first religious vows on October 1982, and his final vows on May 1988.

Thus he says "I supposed [they] laughed at me."

In 1981 he entered into a program in Ateneo de Manila University, and was awarded a Certificate in Formation Institute for Religious Educators in 1985. This appointment marks another significant milestone for Filipino leadership within the global Catholic Church.

The Vatican press office bulletin explicitly stated, “The Holy Father has appointed the following as members of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life:…the Reverend Brother Armin Altamirano Luistro, superior general of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.”

The Dicastery is a crucial Vatican office responsible for guiding and regulating the global practice of consecrated life, overseeing matters related to religious congregations and societies of apostolic life within the Catholic Church.

What values need to be promoted? He had ₱89,000 (US$2,060). He was inaugurated on June 30, 2010, becoming the second De La Salle brother to hold the post—the other was Gonzalez who was in office from 1998 to 2001.

Aquino gave Luistro two years to address problems, including insufficient books, classrooms and teachers. According to Vatican data, the Catholic Church includes nearly 600,000 women religious, approximately 128,500 religious-order priests, and about 50,000 religious brothers.