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Jamias vs. Rodriguez, et.al.

MONS. JUAN JAMIAS, petitioner, vs. EULOGIO B. RODRIGUEZ, Director of Public Libraries, and MANUEL V. GALLEGO, Secretary of Education, respondents.

G.R. No. L-2133 | 1948-07-22

D E C I S I O N

PERFECTO, J:

Alleging to be the Bishop Maximus of the Philippine Independent Church, petitioner seeks a peremptory order to compel respondents, the Director of the Bureau of Public Libraries and the Secretary of Education, to immediately issue to Bishops Leopoldo A. Ruiz and Juan T. Kijano, of said church, authorizations to solemnize marriages. It is alleged that on January 11, 1948, petitioner, as duly elected Bishop Maximus of said church, filed with the respondent Director of Public Libraries an application for removal of the authority to solemnize marriages issued in favor of Bishop Leopoldo A. Ruiz, which authority,...