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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]
Guiguinto Church; Immaculate Conception Parish Church (Santa Maria) Malolos Cathedral; Meycauayan Church; 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)
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.
This is a list of Catholic churches in Metro Manila, Philippines. The Ecclesiastical Province of Manila covers the Archdiocese of Manila and its eight suffragan dioceses in Metro Manila and surrounding areas of the Greater Manila Area.
Note: The Philippine Independent Catholic Church, also known as Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independiente, is not in communion with the mainstream Philippine Independent Church or Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Below is a list of their cathedrals: National Cathedral of the Holy Child Jesus, 594 4th Street, Paliparan, Marikina
During a preliminary assembly on July 9, 2023, in Kalibo, Aklan, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines voted in favor of the proposal of Bishop Cosme Almedilla of Butuan for the separation from Butuan of a new diocese that will cover the province of Agusan del Sur, which is considered a “missionary frontier” with a third of its population being indigenous peoples.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines is are divded into 72 dioceses in 16 ecclesiastical provinces, as well as 7 apostolic vicariates and a military ordinariate.Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop, and at least one suffragan diocese.
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.