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Template:DisputeCheck Eraņo de Guzman Manalo (born January 2,1925) is the current Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC). He is the fifth child of INC founder1 Felix Y. Manalo and Honorata De Guzman.
He initially took up law school, but left his studies to become a minister of the INC. He has also was the general treasurer of the INC and circulation manager of the Pasugo magazine (now known as God's Message). During this time, he wrote a 64-page booklet entitled Christ-God: Investigated-False.
On January 17, 1955, Eraņo Manalo married Cristina Villanueva with whom he has six children. His son Eduardo is currently INC's Deputy Executive Minister.
Manalo is said to have a warm, friendly personality, but is reputed to be an authoritative and decisive leader by friends and foes alike. Up until recently, he would meet once a week with visitors within the Church and outside in the Iglesia Ni Cristo Central Office located in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Ten years before his father's death in 1963, Eraņo Manalo was elected successor to his father as Executive Minister.
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Note 1: Although the de facto founder, Felix Manalo never claimed he founded the INC. Manalo and the current INC Administration maintain that Jesus founded the Iglesia ni Cristo(INC). Lately, it is the INC detractors who is propagating this wrong information.