Profile of STAR Rtn. Caloy Serapio

Carlos Gelacio Serapio could have donned the priestly flock by his lifetime commitment to the Christian Ministry but for the fact that the LAW has been his mistress all along. He authored ‘Christianism’: A Philosophical Guide to Political Praxis. A true blue lawyer who has been granted a Coat of Arms “A Deo Lux Nostra” by the Royal College of Arms (2008) he studied law at the premier University of the Philippines and was admitted to the bar in 1976.

Atty. Serapio credits however, his initial love and loyalty to the Catholic Faith to his schooling at the St. James Academy, a MaryKnoll- sisters run school in Malabon, where he completed his grade school and high school studies, with the distinction of ‘Most Outstanding Student’ in the secondary level. Yet the additional foundation built into his intellectual reservoir was provided by the Ateneo Jesuits whose Ignatian Recollections fused with strict Academics further honed his skills finishing college as a Dean’s lister with an A.B. Political Science degree.

He became an avowed member and officer of the Student Catholic Action becoming eventually the Secretary-General of the National Student Catholic Action of the Philippines. As a Marian devotee, he was a founding partner of the Magnificat Movement and currently a Trustee of the Pueblo Maria Marian Mariological Society of the Philippines – PAMMMS Phil.

He also represented the Ateneo in a Seminar Course at the Keio University (ISSK), Tokyo, Japan. He was a U.S. Information Service Grantee for a short leadership and special studies program in the Sangamon College of the University of Illinois, USA. He Completed in the University of the Philippines a management course for small and Medium Scale Industries.

He provided professional services in the following:

Policy Areas

Provided Confidential Political and Legal Consulting Services/As well as Backroom Channeling services to Three Former Philippine Presidents; One (1) Business Leader and Ambassador; One (1) Cardinal; Other Prominent Political Personalities

Consultant, Center for Republic Resource Management (CPRM)

Secretary-General, Christian Nationalist Union – CNU

Presentor, Transparency International

Consultant, UNDP Local Project in Asia (2007)

UNDP Bangkok Round Table Conference on Local Democracy Participant (2007)

Project Manager, USAID Inventory and Data Base Project in the Court of Appeals and Court of Tax Appeals (2007)

Asian Development Bank Special Project, legal consulting/engineering services to companies venturing in pioneer enterprises (R.E. REED INC., PCG INC., Fil-Global etc.)

Advocacy Groups

KPM-KKK – Kamalayang Pinoy Movement (Philippine Consciousness) – Katipunan ng Kamalayang Kayumanggi – Party of the Malay (Born) Race

KEP-SG – Kapatiran ng Espiritual ng Pilipinas (Brotherhood of Spiritual Groups in the Philippines)

BSBP – Bagong Sistema Bagong Pag-Asa (New System New Hope)

KBK – Sovereign People Foundation

Political Affiliation

Non Traditional Christian Democratic Organizations

Today, more than just a Law practitioner who manages his own firm THE SERAPIO AND DE CASTRO LAW OFFICE, Caloy sees himself as a ‘Legal Engineer’ who uses the law as both a tool to maintain social peace and stability, as well as an instrument of social change. He continues to be involved in socio-political events and groups that espouse genuine reform in all areas of Philippine society.