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Fr. Milver R. Cruz. Saint Dominic de Guzman Parish Church, commonly known as Abucay Church, is a 17th-century Baroque Roman Catholic church located at Brgy. Laon, Abucay, Bataan, Philippines. The parish church, established in 1587 and administered by the Dominican Missionary Friars in 1588, is dedicated to Saint Dominic of Guzman. [1]
In 1596, the Dominican friars established the "visita" of Samal, under the parish of Abucay and transferred the image thereto. According to oral tradition, shortly after Samal was established as a Parish on April 20, 1644, the statue disappeared from its altar and was later found under a camachile tree near a creek, some five kilometers north ...
Abucay borders Balanga (the capital city) to the south, Samal to the north and northwest, Morong to the west, and Manila Bay to the east.. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of 79.72 square kilometres (30.78 sq mi) [2] constituting 5.81% of the 1,372.98-square-kilometre- (530.11 sq mi) total area of Bataan.
English: 1587 Parish Church of St. Dominic de Guzman (Abucay, 2114 Bataan, Philippines) Pop.: 22,849 Cath.: 19,501 Titular: St. Dominic de Guzman, August 8 Parish Priest: Msgr. Hernando Guanzon succeeding Father Antonio Quintos The 421-year-old church constructed in 1587 in the rich Spanish style of the day, and a living witness to the massacre of more than 200 native defenders from the hands ...
Parish Priest and Parish Office Official Notes, Orani, Bataan (retrieved on January 16, 2013). Bataan Women's Graphics, September 2010, Vol. III No. 15 A Tourist Guide to Notable Philippine Churches , by Benjamin Locsin, 2007, New Day Publishers, Pasig, Philippines ( ISBN 971-8521-10-0 , pages 39–41).
The Cathedral-Shrine of Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary, commonly known as Balanga Cathedral, in Balanga, Bataan, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Balanga which comprises entire of the civil province of Bataan, Philippines. Currently, Noel Niguid and Alwin Bobis serve as the cathedral priests. On March 19, 2015, the cathedral was ...
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Fr. Losar was the first parish priest of the church. In 1624, the whole town of Tacboan was relocated and it was called Indan where a new church was built with the same patron saint, St. Peter the Apostle. In 1636, the missionaries established a church of Labo combining with Indan. In 1661, the secular clergy started administering the church.