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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]
There is some controversy about which of the versions is the first printed book in Spanish Philippines, with some scholars believing the first to be the Chinese-language version titled Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua China, compuesta por los padres ministros de los Sangleyes, de la Orden de Sancto Domingo.
National Shrine of Saint Anne (Philippines) National Shrine of the Divine Mercy (Philippines) Obando Church; Our Lady of Most Holy Rosary Parish Church (Makinabang) Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Church (Pulong Buhangin) Saint Martin of Tours Parish Church (Bocaue) Saint Paul the First Hermit Cathedral; San Isidro Labrador Church (Pulilan)
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]
The Catechism for Filipino Catholics, or CFC, is a contextualized and inculturated Roman Catholic catechism for Filipinos prepared by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and approved by the Holy See. The draft was produced by the CBCP's "Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education."
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 ...
The 2020 Census reported that 78.8 percent of the population professed Roman Catholicism; other Christian denominations with a sizable number of adherents include the Iglesia ni Cristo, the Philippine Independent Church, and Seventh-day Adventism.
Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in the Philippines Catholic apostolic vicariates in the Philippines The Catholic dioceses in the Philippines are grouped into 16 ecclesiastical provinces , each of which comprises a metropolitan archdiocese and several suffragan dioceses and is headed by the archbishop , as the metropolitan bishop of the province.