Gregory S. Ong

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Full Name	Gregory S. Ong
Occupation	Judge
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1953(1953-05-25)
Age	71
Country	Philippines
Birth City	San Juan
Horoscope	Taurus

Gregory S. Ong Biography

Gregory S. Ong is one of the most popular and richest Judge who was born on May 25, 1953 in San Juan, Philippines. Justice Ong is married to Nancy L. Ong with three children: Neil Gregory, Gregory and Nicole. Ong connects his family lineage back to Maria Santos of Malolos, Bulacan born on the 25th of November 1881. She was said to be was a Filipino citizen who was married to Chan Kin, a Chinese citizen. They had one child, Juan Santos; that in the year 1906 Chan Kin died in China and as a result of Chan Kin’s death, Maria Santos reverted to her Filipino citizenship, and at the moment Juan Santos was a minor and that Juan Santos thereby also became a Filipino citizen. It is also known that the mother of Ong’s, Dy Guiok Santos, is the daughter of couples Juan Santos and Sy Siok Hian Sy Siok Hian, an Chinese national, that got married in 1927 Ong’s mother was born a Filipino citizen when she was born; the fact that Dy Guiok Santos married the son of a Chinese citizens, Eugenio Ong Han Seng and thus became a Chinese citizen. When Ong was 11 years old, Ong’s father Eugenio Ong Han Seng was naturalized and consequently, Ong, his sisters and brothers, as well as his mother were also included as naturalized citizens.

He was a student of the Master in Laws at Manuel L. Quezon University (1992). Prior to his snubbed Supreme Court appointment, Ong was the chairman of the 4th Division of the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan.

On November 20, 2007, the Supreme Court of the Philippines received the judgment of Regional Trial Court, Br. 264, Pasig City (in Sp. Proc. No. 11767, entitled “In re: amendment / correction / supplementation or annotation of entry in the certificate of live birth of Gregory S. Ong vs. the Local Civil Register of San Juan; Kilosbayan and Bantay Katarungan, oppositors”), which ruled that Ong is a natural born Filipino citizen.

On November 21, 2007, Gregory Ong was declared natural-born Filipino citizen. In a Judgment, Leoncio Janolo Jr., Branch 264, Pasig regional trial court granted Ong’s petition to be recognized as a natural-born Filipino citizen, qualifying him to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The Civil Registrar of San Juan, Metro Manila was directed to annotate in the Certificate of Birth of Ong the decision. Ong acquired Philippine citizenship when he was still a minor on the basis of the naturalization of his father, Eugenio Ong Han Seng. The judgment dismissed objections to Ong’s appointment to the Supreme Court of the Philippines and tenure at the Sandiganbayan, further holding that the petitioner and oppositor were not the real adversarial litigants in their citizenship issue, ruling the 2 foundations are “merely would-be oppositors and not actual or bona fide oppositors,” and they are “not real parties in interest who actually stand to be injured or prejudiced by a judgment or decree” granting Ong’s petition.

Ong was able to pass in 1979 the Philippine Bar Examination with a bar score of 76.45 Percent.

Gregory S. Ong Net Worth

Gregory S. Ong is one of the richest Judge from Philippines. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gregory S. Ong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gregory Santos Ong (born May 25 1953) is an Filipino jurist, and was previously a Justice of the Sandiganbayan. He was first appointed an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of the Philippines by President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo on May 16 2007 but the appointment was later withdrawn when questions were raised about whether he fulfilled the constitutional requirement for natural-born citizenship. In September, 2014 the judge found him guilty of gross imprudence, dishonesty and misconduct and was later dismissed in the capacity of Justice of the Sandiganbayan by the Supreme Court of the Philippines following an investigation that linked him to criminals who crafted the pork barrel scam, Janet Lim-Napoles.

Ong completed his elementary and high school in The Philippine Chinese Chen Kuang (1966) as well as at Jose Rizal College (with honors 1970) and the Jose Rizal College (with honors, 1970). Ong obtained the AB Political Science degree at Far Eastern University (1975) and a Bachelor of Laws at San Beda College of Law (1979) in which he was made the Grand Judex to Lex Talionis Fraternitas.

On December 4, 2007, the oppositions Kilosbayan and Bantay Katarungan headed by Jovito Salonga stated that Judge Janolo denied their motion for reconsideration, and they appealed to the High Court to reverse the lower court’s decision on account of “grave error.” The High Tribunal has yet to resolve 2 separate pleadings filed before it regarding Ong’s citizenship: a) the letter-query of Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio on Ong’s status as Sandiganbayan justice, and b) the Quo Warranto petition filed by Iglesia ni Cristo lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, who asked the Court to stop Ong from exercising his role as Sandiganbayan justice because of his questionable citizenship.

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Since the creation of the Philippine Supreme Court in 1901, no presidential appointment of a Supreme Court Associate had ever been nullified by the High Tribunal. But on July 3, 2007 the Adolfo Azcuna judgment made history. The Court granted the petition of two foundations that sought to block Ong’s appointment over the citizenship issue. Azcuna wrote that Ong would be unable to join them on the bench “until he had proven in court that he was a natural- born Filipino citizen and corrected the records of his birth and citizenship”. The court declared its decision to be final and effective immediately.

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Gregory Ranked on the list of most popular Judge. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Philippines. Gregory S. Ong celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

The court voted 13–0 in favor of petitioners Kilosbayan and Bantay Katarungan foundations (Senate President Jovito Salonga and Emilio Capulong). The suit was to enjoin President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s appointment of Ong (54—Ms Arroyo’s 12th appointee to the tribunal) to replace retired Justice Romeo Callejo, Sr. Ong told reporters that: “I am truly saddened by the decision of the high court, but I respect it. “I am a Filipino. I lived and will live my life as a Filipino, and I raised my children as law-abiding Filipinos.”