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The Philippine Independent Church (Filipino: Malayang Simbahan ng Pilipinas; Ilocano: Nawaya a Simbaan ti Filipinas), officially referred to by its Philippine Spanish name Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) and colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, is an independent [e] Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church, [f] in ...
Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán [a] (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 ...
Commonly shared beliefs in the Aglipayan Church are the rejection of the Apostolic Succession solely to the Petrine Papacy, the acceptance of priestly ordination of women, the free option of clerical celibacy, the tolerance to join Freemasonry groups, and the advocacy of contraception and same-sex civil rights among its members.
church built in 1886: NCR Malabon: 272 Gen. Luna St. La Purisima Concepcion De Malabon Church (a.k.a. Aglipayan Church/ Iglesia Filipina Independiente) church established on November 7, 1902: NCR Malabon: C. Arellano St.
Gregorio Aglipay, co-founder of the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the "Aglipayan Church" See also. Philippine Independent Church
The Church Body of Christ – Filipinista (Cebuano: Iglesia ang Lawas ni Kristo-Filipinista), simply known as CBCF or Filipinista, is an independent Christian religious organization that originated in the Philippines, particularly on the island of Mindanao, and was organized by His Eminence Reverend Lucilo G. Miñoza, a former IFI Priest assigned in Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur.
According to the National Statistics Office's national census for the year 2010, an estimated 90.1% of Filipinos were Christians; this consisted of 80.6% Catholic, 4% Iglesia ni Cristo, 1.0% Aglipayan, 2.7% Evangelical groups, and 3.4% other Christian groups including other Protestant denominations (Baptist, Pentecostal, Anglican, Methodist ...
The property was first leased to the church for a term of 99 years by virtue of a lease contract executed on February 25, 1966, between the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, in consideration of the sum of PHP 4.00.