The Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language is the main Spanish-language regulating body in the Philippines

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. Its headquarters are located in Makati City

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. It was established in Manila

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 on July 25, 1924.

Though Spanish ceased to be an official language of the Philippines

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 in 1973, the academy is still considered as a state institution. Former Philippine president

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 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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, Foreign Affairs Minister Alberto Romulo

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, and Cebu

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 Archbishop Cardinal Ricardo Vidal are among its directors.

In December 2007, President Arroyo signed a directive in Spain that would require teaching and learning the Spanish language in the Philippine school system starting in 2008.

It belongs to the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española.

Academics in order of seniority

1. Sr. D. Guillermo Gómez Rivera
   Guillermo Gómez Rivera
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2. Sr. D. Edmundo Farolán.
3. Sra. D.ª Lourdes Carballo.
4. Rvdo. P. D. Fidel Villarroel, O. P.
5. Rvdo. P. D. Pedro G. Tejero, O. P.
6. Sr. D. Ramón A. Pedrosa.
7. Sr. D. José Rodríguez Rodríguez.
8. Rvdo. P. D. Diosdado Talamayan y Aenlle, D. D.
9. Sr. D. Alejandro Roces.
10. Sra. D.ª Rosalinda Orosa.

1. Rvdo. P. D. José Arcilla, S. J.
2. Sra. D.ª María Consuelo Puyat-Reyes.
3. Sr. D. Francisco C. Delgado.
4. Sra. D.ª Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
   Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
   Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga...
   
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5. Rvdo. P. D. Miguel Bernad y Anselmo, S.J.
   Miguel Bernad
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6. Sr. D. Benito Legarda.
7. Sr. D. Salvador B. Malig.
8. Sr. D. Alberto G. Rómulo
   Alberto Romulo
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9. Sr. D. Wystan de la Peña Salarda.
10. Sr. D. Hilario Zialcita y Legarda.

1. Sra. D.ª Lourdes Castrillo de Brillantes.
2. Sr. D. Regino Paular y Pintal.
3. Sr. D. Emmanuel Luis A. Romanillos.
4. Sr. D. José María Cariño y Ancheta.
5. Sr. D. Macario M. Ofilada, III.
6. Sr. D. Erwin Thaddeus Bautista Luna.
7. Sr. D. René Ángelo Prado Singian.
8. Sr. D. René S. Salvania.
9. Sra. D.ª Trinidad O. Regala.
10. Sra. D.ª Daisy López.

See also

• Association of Spanish Language Academies
  Association of Spanish Language Academies
  The Association of Spanish Language Academies is the entity which regulates the Spanish language. It was created in Mexico in 1951 and represents the union of all the separate academies in the Spanish-speaking world....
  
  
• Spanish language in the Philippines
• Philippine literature in Spanish
  Philippine Literature in Spanish
  Philippine literature in Spanish is a body of literature made by Filipino writers in the Spanish language. Today, this corpus is the third largest in the whole corpus of Philippine literature . It is slightly larger than the Philippine literature in the vernacular languages...
  
  
• Latin Union
  Latin Union
  The Latin Union is an international organization of nations that use Romance languages, with the aim of protecting, projecting, and promoting the common cultural heritage and unifying identities of the Latin, and Latin-influenced, world. It was created in 1954 in Madrid, Spain, and has existed as a...
  
  

External links

• Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española (in Spanish)