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Catholic ceremony in the Philippines, circa pre-1930. When the Spanish clergy were driven out in 1898, there were so few indigenous clergy that the Catholic Church in the Philippines was in imminent danger of complete ruin. Under American administration, the situation was saved and the proper training of Filipino clergy was undertaken. [9]
The Philippines is ranked as the 5th largest Christian-majority country on Earth in 2010, [note 1] with about 93% of the population being adherents. [1] As of 2019, it was the third largest Catholic country in the world and was one of two predominantly Catholic nations in Asia. [2]
Conducted near the shores of the island, the First Holy Mass marked the birth of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines. Colambu and Siaiu were the first natives of the archipelago, which was not yet named "Philippines" until the expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos in 1543, to attend the Mass among other native inhabitants. [10] [12]
The Catholic Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, built on the site of the Church of St. Vitales, the first church built in the Philippines. Catholicism (Filipino: Katolisismo; Spanish: Catolicismo) is the predominant religion and the largest Christian denomination in the Philippines comprising 78.8% of the population (or 85,645,362 million adherents ...
Lorenzo was beatified during Pope John Paul II's papal visit to the Philippines in 1981. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It was the first ever beatification ceremony to be held outside the Vatican . A statue of San Lorenzo Ruiz enshrined at the Manila Cathedral .
One of Spain's objectives in colonialization of the Philippines was the conversion of the local population to Roman Catholicism. The work of conversion was facilitated by the disunity and insignificance of other organized religions, except for Islam, which was still predominant in the southwest. [ 256 ]
Some Catholic missionaries became the explorers of the native lands while converting and coercing the Indios towards Christianity. Because of the Spanish colonization started by Miguel López de Legazpi , Christianity was introduced in Cebu , which remains a bastion of the Catholic faith.
Despite the attacks initiated by Abrahamic faiths against the Philippine indigenous folk religions by way of colonization and its after-effects, many of the indigenous religious traditions survived, while many were also infused into Abrahamic religions in the form of Folk Catholicism and Folk Islam.