Thomas Augustine Hendrick
Thomas Augustine Hendrick was an American Catholic priest; he became the 22nd Bishop of Cebú, the first American to hold this position.Life
He was ordained priest at St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, New York, 7 June 1873, and spent 29 years in parish work in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.
When the reorganization of the Catholic Church in the Philippines was undertaken after the Spanish–American War, he was appointed Bishop of Cebú, and consecrated in Rome 23 August 1903. He took possession of his See on 6 March 1904. He died from cholera and was buried on the same day at the floor of the left wing of the Cebu Cathedral right beside the tomb of Bishop Romualdo Jimeno de Ballesteros.
