Feliciano V. Cariño served as General Secretary of the World Student Christian Federation from 1973-77. Prior to his assumption of this post in Geneva, Switzerland, he was Consultant and Secretary for Student World Relations of the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. He was one of the organizing secretaries of the Student Christian Movement of the Philippines and was elected its first National Chairman.

He is currently the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Philippine Christian University in Manila. He is also the Editor of Tugon, the ecumenical journal of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, and serves in the Board of Directors of a number of ecumenical and academic organizations in the Philippines: the Ecumenical Center for Development, the Association of Philippine Colleges of Arts and Sciences, the Regional Center for Development and the Clergy and Laity Formation Program for Northern Luzon. His many articles and writings have been published in ecumenical and academic journals in Asia and other parts of the world.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Philippine Christian College (Manila), his Bachelor of Theology from Union Theological Seminary (Manila), and his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton Theological Seminary in the U.S.A.