BIOGRAPHY OF LEONARDO LOSBAÑOS TAN

Leonardo Losbaños Tan is known as a fateful servant of God and a good leader of preaching good news about Him. He is a 53 year-old priest of Banban Siquijor.  He is born on the 25th day of February 1964 in Dumaguete City. Leonardo is raise in a wealthy family in Dumaguete City, his original residence. His parents are Lourdes Losbaños Tan and Isaias Tan, who are both entrepreneurs before. Leonardo together with his siblings Artemio Tan, Crisanto Tan, Marilou Tan Regencia, Mary Jean Tan Vicente and Isaias Tan are now all professionals and already have their own families and career in life.

Talking about Leonardo's educational background, he completed his Elementary years in Holy Cross High School and received an award as 10th honorable mention. His memorable experience during those days was the time he studied with rich and known Chinese families in Dumaguete city. Likewise, he completed High school in the same school and again, got an award as 8th Honorable mention. Unfortunately, during those days, he got bullied by his classmates. Regardless of what had happened to him, he strived hard and focused on his studies and graduated with 85.6% rating at least made him proud. On his college years, he studied at St. Joseph Seminary College and got the Leadership Award. He has a lot of memories and experiences that he considered worth to be treasured, this includes, his experience deep relationship with God, able to fight the fear of death, a student teacher, read lots of books in philosophy and spirituality and lastly his experience on mystical religious "Nirvana".

During his journey of becoming a priest, he went through process in order to test his strong faith to God. Leonardo was first assigned on the Cathedral Church in Dumaguete as a Youth director. He had also gone to visit places outside the Philippines. These places include Europe, Italy, Rome, Venice, France, Germany and Netherlands. Through his travel, he was able to make friends with other nationalities that enhance his social being. 

Aside from being the master of the mass, Leonardo has different hobbies and interests in life. His hobbies include Scuba diving, swimming, playing basketball and tennis, mountaineering, caving and reading books. At the same time, he is part of other activities as a Vicarial Youth Director, Vicarial Social Action Head, Assistant Director of Siquijor Association of Catholic Schools (SACS) and PCGA Head Division of Siquijor. His favorite color is green and blue and he has a pet dog. However, these hobbies and interests give direction, meaning, values and physical well-being of mind body and soul to him. Moreover, these are related and helpful in his profession in the sense that it appreciates nature, experience that God created natural beauties and it helps him know what the difference between men and boys.

Other than being a fateful servant of God, there are other things that Leonardo pours his time with. He spends his time on the operation for advocacies on  preserving the corals, saving the Mount Talints (watershed), education for less fortunate kids, ecology- especially the call of the times of climate change, PPCRV and Political Maturity of People (No to Vote Buying). Also, Leonardo wants other plans and careers to try such as body  jumping and sky diving.

For Leonardo, the things that he had done that is consider as a best influence in other lives is being able to root one’s life through prayer, honesty and sincerity, also, his disciplined life that influence his friends and the youth as well. Furthermore, he has plans for the future which is to establish a pool of volunteer for rescue team when calamities would hit and create humanitarian emergency preparedness response team. According to him this contributes a lot to avoid from any disaster that comes along.

Ultimately, Leonardo Tan is exemplary for having an attitude of not just thinking about himself but, also for his people and for our nature as well. Perhaps it is the reason why he becomes successful in life. As what he quoted  "Know thyself and you will be successful in your life".

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