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Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán (Latin: Gregorius Aglipay Cruz; Filipino: Gregorio Labayan Aglipay Cruz; pronounced uhg-LEE-pahy; May 5, 1860 – September 1, 1940) was a Filipino former Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War who became the first head and leader of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), the first-ever wholly ...
Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayan was a Roman Catholic priest who became the first Filipino Supreme Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church, a new Protestant revolutionary-nationalist church, who would later become an Anglo-Catholic church. [79]
The shrine is dedicated to Gregorio Aglipay (1860–1940). He was a Catholic priest and served as a military chaplain and military vicar general during the Philippine Revolution in 1898. He was excommunicated in 1899 for rebelling against Spanish rule in the Philippines, a period when Roman Catholicism was the state religion in the country.
Gregorio Aglipay: General, Religious Auxiliary Lieutenant General Vicario General Castrence (Military Vicar General) Founder of the group called as Liwanag (Light), an auxiliary of the Katipunan; Co-founder and first Supreme Bishop of the "Philippine Independent Church" First Philippine Republic; Revolutionary Government of the Philippines
Gregorio Aglipay y Labayan, Supreme Bishop (1902–1940) Santiago Fonacier, Supreme Bishop (1940–1946) Gerardo Bayaca, Supreme Bishop (1946–1946) Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr., Supreme Bishop (1946–1971) Macario V. Ga, Supreme Bishop (1971–1981) Abdias de la Cruz, Supreme Bishop (1981–1987) Soliman Ganno, Supreme Bishop (1987–1989)
He is the fourteenth in a line of succession from Gregorio Aglipay, the first Obispo Máximo. [ 1 ] The supreme bishop's office is at the Obispado Máximo (also called the "Central Office") in the National Cathedral of the Holy Child compound, located in Taft Avenue , Manila .
On the centenary of the birth of Gregorio Aglipay in 1960, a fundraising program was launched to build a National Cathedral on a lot in Ermita, Manila owned by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, which the latter offered to the church. The lot has an area of 3,501.50 square meters.
Image sculpture depicting the apparition of the icon Virgin of Balitawak displayed at the Iglesia Filipina Independiente National Cathedral of the Holy Child.. The novena of Obispo Máximo Gregorio Aglipay from 18 to 26 of August 1925 was intended to commemorate the nine-day period that marked the beginning of the Philippine Revolution (formerly known as the "Cry of Balintawak" until it was ...