Most Rev. Msgr. Sincero Lucero

The Most Reverend Monsignor Sincero Barcenilla Lucero, D.D., S.T.L., another Argawanon who made a name for himself and Argao when he was made into the 3rd bishop of Borongan, Samar in the 70's. He was rumored to have NPA sympathies and was later brutally beaten up by military men during the Marcos dictatorship.

FR. JOAQUIN BOISER

Fr. Joaquin Boiser was the first parish priest of Argao who wasn't from the Spanish period. He came to Argao in 1914, the year of Fr. Bartolome del Carmen's death. Succeeding a very beloved figure of Argao was not an easy task, and, in Fr. Boiser's case, he faced challenges to his author almost as soon as he started his term as cura. He had a lengthy conflict with the municipal government that led to his arrest and incarceration, the arrest of several of his workers, and his filing of several cases against many prominent men from Argao.

His term as parish priest was precarious, and he went through several petitions to be removed as cura of the parish. He was finally transferred in 1932.

PADRE BARTOLOME DEL CARMEN

The Reverend Father Don Bartolome del Carmen y Gador, born 1857 in Moalboal, Cebu, the second child of Don Pio Quinto del Carmen, a former gobernadorcillo of the town, and Petrona Gador, a daughter of a cabeza de barangay. Educated in the seminary in Cebu City, he was later assigned as a coadjutor of Argao, Cebu, where he met Basilia Lucero. They had two children, Teopista and Maria Lucero, though only Teopista lived to adulthood.

Bartolome del Carmen became cura parroco in 1898, on the eve of the revolution, and remained in this capacity until his death in 1914.

FRAY FERNANDO SANCHEZ

Presbitero Don Fernando Sanchez, cura párroco of Argao from 1878 to 1891. He may have been removed from Argao after he meddled in the results of the 1890 elections for Argao's gobernadorcillo.