{{Use Philippine English|date=April 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Philippine name|Lorenzo Relova}} {{Infobox judge | honorific_prefix = | name = Lorenzo Relova | honorific_suffix = | order = 103rd | office = Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines | term_start = May 14, 1982 | term_end = January 19, 1986 | appointer = Ferdinand Marcos | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = Member of the Judicial and Bar Council for retired Supreme Court justices | term_start2 = January 8, 1990 | term_end2 = July 9, 1993 | appointer2 = Corazon Aquino | predecessor2 = Nestor Alampay | successor2 = Jose C. Campos | birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|01|20}} | birth_place = | origin = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|04|23|1916|01|20}} | death_place = | genre = | occupation = Supreme Court judge }}
'''Lorenzo Relova''' (January 20, 1916 – April 23, 2014) was a Filipino judge who served as the 103rd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from May 14, 1982, until January 19, 1986, during the Marcos era.<ref name=rappler>{{cite news|title=Marcos-time SC Justice Lorenzo Relova dies |url=https://www.rappler.com/philippines/56326-retired-supreme-court-justice-lorenzo-relova-dies/ |work=Rappler |date=April 25, 2014 |access-date=May 11, 2014}}</ref><ref name=inquirer>{{cite news|first=Jerome|last=Aning|title=Retired SC justice Lorenzo Relova; 98 |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/597229/retired-sc-justice-lorenzo-relova-98 |work=Philippine Inquirer |date=April 25, 2014 |access-date=May 11, 2014}}</ref> He was the country's oldest living Supreme Court justice at the time of his death in 2014.<ref name=inquirer/>
== Early life and education == Relova was born on January 20, 1916, in Pila, Laguna, Philippines.<ref name=rappler/> His father, Jose Diaz Relova, was the first lawyer to practice in Pila.<ref name="inquirer" /> Uncle Regino Diaz Relova was a lieutenant colonel in the Katipunan in Laguna, Philippines.
Lorenzo Relova taught as a law professor at Ateneo Law School for more than forty years.<ref name=rappler/> In 2012, he was inducted into the university's Professors of Law Hall of Fame.<ref name=rappler/>
== Death ==
Relova died on April 23, 2014, at the age of 98.<ref name=rappler/> A memorial was held at Magallanes Church in Makati.<ref name=rappler/>
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