The origins of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines may be traced to as far back as February 15, 1945 when the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Guglielmo Piani, even as the war was raging, created the Catholic Welfare Organization (CWO), with its central office at a remodeled coop at the University of Santo Tomas internment camp. (Eventually, the office was moved to the following addresses in succession: La Consolación College at 260 San Rafael St., Manila, in the same year; 1500 Taft Avenue in 1953; 2472 Taft Avenue in 1955; 2655 F.B. Harrison in 1974; 372 Cabildo St.; and, finally, 470 General Luna St, Intramuros, in 1983.)