Jaime Lachica Cardinal Sin, the 30th Archbishop of Manila, was born August 31, 1928 in New Washington, Aklan, a small town in an island in the central Philippines. He was the seventh of nine children of Juan Sin, a Chinese businessman who had migrated to the Philippines, and Maxima Reyes Lachica.

He was ordained to the priesthood on April 3, 1954 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Concepcion in Roxas City, Capiz.