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IEMELIF vs. Lazaro [SEPARATE OPINION, CONCURRING, CARPIO, J.]

IGLESIA EVANGELICA METODISTA EN LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS (IEMELIF) (Corporation Sole), INC., REV. NESTOR PINEDA, REV. ROBERTO BACANI, BENJAMIN BORLONGAN, JR., DANILO SAUR, RICHARD PONTI, ALFREDO MATABANG and all the other members of the IEMELIF TONDO CONGREGATION of the IEMELIF CORPORATION SOLE, Petitioners, versus BISHOP NATHANAEL LAZARO, REVERENDS HONORIO RIVERA, DANIEL MADUCDOC, FERDINAND MERCADO, ARCADIO CABILDO, DOMINGO GONZALES, ARTURO LAPUZ, ADORABLE MANGALINDAN, DANIEL VICTORIA and DAKILA CRUZ, and LAY LEADER LINGKOD MADUCDOC and CESAR DOMINGO, acting individually and as members of the Supreme Consistory of Elders and those claiming under the Corporation Aggregate, Respondents.

G.R. No. 184088 | 2010-07-06

SEPARATE CONCURRING OPINION

CARPIO, J.:

I concur in the result of the majority opinion that IEMELIF, a corporation sole, may be converted into a corporation aggregate by a mere amendment of its articles of incorporation.  However, I maintain that the amendment can be effected by the corporation sole without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the religious denomination, sect or church that the corporation sole represents.

Section 110 of the Corporation Code[1] defines a corporation sole as one formed by the chief archbishop, bishop, priest, minister, rabbi or other presiding elder of a religious denomination, sect...