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A meetinghouse in Guadalupe, Makati, Philippines. The first contact the church had with the Philippines was in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.Two church members, Willard Call and George Seaman, who were part of the United States artillery battery, were set apart as missionaries and began to proselytize after being deployed to the Philippines.
The apostolic zeal of the missionaries followed the efforts of men such as Miguel López de Legazpi, and aided to consolidate the enterprise of Hispanicizing the Philippines. The Spanish missionaries acted as de facto conquerors; they gained the goodwill of the islanders, presented Spanish culture positively, and in so doing won approximately 2 ...
Protestant missionaries in the Philippines (5 C, 5 P) R. Roman Catholic missionaries in the Philippines (1 C, ...
He was among the first group of Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the Philippines on 2 July 1578. [ 2 ] He spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines , where he founded numerous towns in Luzon and authored several religious and linguistic books, most notably the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine), the first book ever printed ...
The Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines (Spanish: Provincia Agustiniana del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Filipinas) was a geographical and administrative subdivision of the religious Order of St. Augustine that was formally affiliated to the Order on March 7, 1575, to originally cater the needs of the growing Augustinian presence in Philippines who were serving ...
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart with villagers in front of a Roman Catholic church in the Philippines, circa pre-1920. Early Christian presence in the Malay archipelago and the Philippine Islands may be traced to Arab Christian traders from the Arabian Peninsula. They had trade contacts with early Malayan Rajahs and Datus that had ruled these ...
Martín de Rada, portrait by Victor Villán in 1879. Martín de Rada (June 30, 1533 - June 12, 1578) was one of the first members of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) to spread the Christian doctrine in the Philippines, as well as one of the first Christian missionaries to visit Ming China.
The first Alliance Church was planted in 1902 in Tetuan, Zamboanga City, the first Protestant church on the island of Mindanao, which still exists today. After the Second World War , the local churches planted by C&MA Missionaries decided to organize themselves as a national church.