Bastien Kristianofilo

Archbishop Bastien Kristianofilo
Archbishop of San Miguel de Martínez
275px Official portrait of Bastien III, 1950.
Church	Creeperian Catholic Church
Archdiocese	San Miguel de Martínez
In office	14 July 1935 – 31 December 1965
Predecessor	Tomaso Totino Heni
Successor	Sebastian Durán Ariza
Orders
Ordination	October 1914 by Archbishop Esteban Guerrero Moreno
Consecration	14 July 1935 by Pope Pío XI
Personal details
Birth name	Bastien Dowling Kristianofilo
Born	2 July 1890 Jinosiá, Rakeo, Creeperopolis
Died	5 April 1976(1976-04-05) (aged 85) San Miguel de Martínez, Menora del Sur, Rakeo
Nationality	Rakeoian
Denomination	Creeperian Catholicism
Occupation	Priest, politician
Alma mater	Catholic University of San Miguel de Martínez
2nd Parliamentarian of San Miguel de Martínez
In office 1943–1946
Preceded by	Karlos Mendoza Seidenbusch
Succeeded by	Batheo Geana
Ordination history
History Priestly ordination Ordained by Archbishop Esteban Guerrero Moreno Date October 1914 Place San Miguel de Martínez, Menora del Sur, Rakeo Episcopal consecration Consecrated by Pope Pío XI Date 14 July 1935 Place San Pedro's Basilica, San Salvador del Oeste, State of the Church

Bastien Dowling Kristianofilo (2 July 1890 – 5 April 1967) was a Rakeoian politician and the Creeperian Catholic Archbishop of San Miguel de Martínez.

Early life

Bastien Dowling Kristianofilo was born on 2 July 1890 in Jinosiá, a city in Rakeo, the southernmost viceroyalty of Creeperopolis.

Ecclesiastical career

After attending the Catholic University of San Miguel de Martínez and graduating with a PhD of Philosophy & Theology, Kristianofilo was ordained as a priest in 1914. Following the resignation of Tomaso Totino Heni, Bastien became consecrated as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Miguel de Martínez in 1935. He would oversee the archdiocese for the next twenty years.

Political career

Kristianofilo ran for office in 1943, and won a seat as an independent parliamentarian for San Miguel de Martínez in the fourth parliament. In office, he was a proponent of temporary wealth reforms to stop the decline of the economy, which made him a brief subject of investigation by the Governmental Committee on Miguelist Subversion, as well as faith-based programs to prevent alcoholism. While popular, the archbishop believed that being involved in public office was distracting him from his religious duties, leading to his resignation in 1946.

Kristianofilo alongside officers of the EDP

Despite his reservations surrounding politics, Kristianofilo was seen as a useful ally to Alfonso Moreno Salinas, who assigned him to rally troops and provide moral guidance to the Provisional Defense Army during the Rakeoian Civil War. His sermons at San Pedro's Basilica became a recruiting ground for partisans of the National Action Party. In 1952, Kristianofilo would become an honorary member as part of the Pataba Nine, a group of EDP military officers.

His close relationship with the armed forces and ruler of the country was known to the Stratocratic Authority, and he was marked as a target on the Anti-partisan preparation papers. Fearing capture, Bastien fled abroad in 1955 and changed his name to Alberto Salva Lugo Moncada, a puesdonym he would live under until 1967 when a man suspected to be a member of the DAI shot him in his car.