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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." It is considered the ...
The episcopal conference responsible in governing the faith is the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Christianity was first brought to the Philippine islands by Spanish pirates, missionaries and settlers, who arrived in waves beginning in the early 16th century in Cebu by way of colonization.
The first documented Catholic Mass in the Philippines was held on March 31, 1521, Easter Sunday. It was conducted by Father Pedro de Valderrama of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition along the shores of what was referred to in the journals of Antonio Pigafetta as "Mazaua". Today, this site is widely believed by many historians and the government to ...
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal ( CCR) is a movement within the Catholic Church that is part of the wider charismatic movement across historic Christian churches. [ 1][ 2] The Renewal has been described as a "current of grace". [ 3] It began in 1967 when Catholics from Duquesne University attended a Protestant worship service and claimed to ...
Jaro Evangelical Church, the First Baptist Church in the Philippines (first Protestant church outside Manila). The Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches has its origins in a foreign mission of the American Baptist Missionary Union on the island of Panay in February 1900, [1] [2] when the Philippines islands was opened to the Evangelical missions after it was ceded to the United States ...
On February 6, 1579, the Philippines' first diocese, the Diocese of Manila, was established as a suffragan of the See of Mexico.On August 14, 1595, Pope Clement VIII issued four bulls to Spain: one with the incipit Super universas orbis ecclesias [24] [unreliable source] elevating the See of Manila to a metropolitan archdiocese; and three with the incipit Super specula militantis Ecclesiae [25 ...
Water is poured on the head of an infant held over the baptismal font of a Roman Catholic church. Infant baptism [1] [2] (or paedobaptism) is the practice of baptizing infants or young children. Infant baptism is also called christening by some faith traditions. Most Christians belong to denominations that practice infant baptism.
The UCCP defines baptism as a sacrament of initiation into the church. [13] They believe that baptism is not a means of salvation but a first step of obedience for the new believer. The church permits both believer's baptism and infant baptism. Infant baptism is administered only to infant children of church members as a sign of God's covenant ...