Nilo Tayag

{{Short description|Filipino revolutionary and activist}} {{Philippine name|Salumbides|Tayag}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Nilo Tayag | title = Bishop | image = | image_size = 50px | alt = | caption = | church = International Conference of Philippine Independent Catholic Churches of Jesus Christ (ICPICCJC) | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | elected =  | term =  | quashed =  | predecessor = | successor = | opposed = | other_post =  | ordination = 1989 {{small|(priesthood)}} | ordained_by = Manuel Lagasca Sr. | consecration = March 19, 1993 | consecrated_by = Macario V. Ga, Armando L. de la Cruz, and Melvyn Acosta | cardinal = | created_cardinal_by = | rank =  | birth_name = Nilo Salumbides Tayag | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |77|2020|11|04}}<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Nilo Tayag case revisited |url=https://palawan-news.com/the-nilo-tayag-case-revisited/ |date=November 4, 2022 |last=Socrates |first=Victorino Dennis M. |work=Palawan News |access-date=December 4, 2022}}</ref> | birth_place = Porac, Pampanga | death_date =  | death_place =  | buried =  | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = Filipino | religion = "Aglipayan sect" {{small|(not in communion with the Philippine Independent Church)}} | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession =  | education = | alma_mater = University of the Philippines Diliman<ref name="pdi"/> <br /> ICFI National Seminary | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt =  | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date =  | module = {{Infobox person |child=yes | known_for = Co-founding ''Kabataang Makabayan'' | notable_works = "On Commitment"<ref name=pimentel>{{cite book|last =Pimentel | first =Benjamin | title =Rebolusyon!: A Generation of Struggle in the Philippines | publisher =NYU Press | year =1991 | pages =98 | isbn =9780853458234 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=7d5WCgAAQBAJ&dq=nilo+tayag&pg=PA98}}</ref> }} | other = }} '''Nilo Tayag''' is a Filipino bishop, social activist, and revolutionary. He is a bishop of the Philippine Independent Catholic Church and is an advocate for a revolutionary government in the Philippines<ref name=pdi>{{cite news|title =From guts to Gloria | publisher =Philippine Daily Inquirer | date = 1 September 2012 | last1=Cosme | first1=Colleen | last2=Agustin | first2=Carl Martin | url =http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/64332/from-guts-to-gloria/ | access-date = 21 November 2017}}</ref>

Tayag co-founded, along with Jose Maria Sison and others, the Maoist youth group ''Kabataang Makabayan'' ("Patriotic Youth") in 1964, which became the nucleus of the established Communist Party of the Philippines in 1968, and served as its Central Committee member.<ref>{{cite book|last =Franco | first =Jennifer Conroy | title =Elections and Democratization in the Philippines | publisher =Routledge | year =2001 | pages =89 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=fAq9kgbKBAUC&dq=nilo+tayag+sison+km&pg=PA89 | isbn =0-8153-3734-5 }}</ref> He was the group's national chairman until he was arrested on June 11, 1970, in Barrio Concepcion, San Pablo, Laguna.<ref name=pimentel/> Detained along with Benito Tiamzon, Jesus Lava and other left-wing personalities at the Youth Rehabilitation Center in Fort Bonifacio, and later declaring support for the incumbent president Ferdinand Marcos, he was released in 1981 or 1982 after pleading guilty to the charge of subversion.<ref>{{cite news|last =Hilario | first =Ernesto M. | title =The NPA, a tunnel, and a prison escape plot | publisher =Rappler | date = 28 March 2014 | url =https://www.rappler.com/philippines/53893-npa-tunnel-prison-escape/ | access-date = 21 November 2017}}</ref>

After being released from prison, Tayag undertook theology studies in the Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independiente (ICFI) National Seminary at Batac, Ilocos Norte (a splinter group from the Philippine Independent Church). In 1987, he ran for the Senate under the UPP-KBL ticket but lost.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manila Standard - Google News Archive Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uKEVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZwsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3235,484151|access-date=2022-02-23|website=news.google.com}}</ref> After losing the election, in January 1988, Tayag and other Marcos loyalists declared their exit from the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan party to form a new party called the Loyalist Party of the Philippines (LPP), of which Tayag was co-vice president with Pacifico de Leon.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hardcore FM men quit KBL|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8cBNEdFwSQkC&dat=19880108&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|access-date=June 5, 2021|work=Manila Standard|publisher=Standard Publications, Inc.|date=January 8, 1988|page=8}}</ref> In 1989, his Church ordained him a priest, and by 1993 consecrated him as a bishop.<ref name=pdi/> He was a prominent supporter of Rodrigo Duterte during the latter's campaign for the Presidency<ref>{{cite web|last =Holmes | first =Ronnie | title =Days of Duterte begin | url=http://www.newmandala.org/days-of-duterte-begin/ | date = 13 May 2016 | access-date = 21 November 2017}}</ref> and is a founding member of the "Democratic Front for Filipinism" and "Kilusang Pilipinismo", groups supporting Duterte's "revolution against illegal drugs, the oligarchs and the exploiters of the Filipino masses".<ref>{{cite news|last = Vizcarra | first =Joseph U. | title =Group of ex-rebels calls support for 'Duterte Revolution' | publisher =Business World Online | date = 15 August 2016 | url =http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=group-of-ex-rebels-calls-support-for-&145duterte-revolution&8217&id=131903 | access-date=November 21, 2017}}</ref>

Tayag is a member of the UP Alpha Sigma fraternity, Philippine Guardians Brotherhood Inc., and Freemasonry.

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