Name | Jaime Sin |
Date of Birth | August 31, 1928 |
Place of Birth | Philippines |
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Jaime Sin was born on August 31, 1928 in Philippines. He died on Jun 21, 2005 (age 76). Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Chinese and Filipino descent who served as Archbishop of Manila from 1974 to 2003.
He moved away from the place he had spent his infancy in order to attend the Saint Vincent Ferrer Seminary, from which he graduated and was ordained in 1954. Due to the fact that he believes birth control to be a sin, he set fire to the boxes of condoms that the government had supplied him in an effort to halt the spread of HIV. There were a total of fifteen of his brothers and sisters.