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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 ...
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 ...
Born in Mondéjar, Guadalajara, Spain, he entered the Society of Jesus at Alcalá on 27 May 1565. He was rector of the college of Navalcarnero, taught grammar for five years, and in 1579 went to the mission of Mexico, where he was rector of the seminary. Early in 1581 he set out for the Philippines with Bishop Domingo de Salazar.
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.
Roman Catholic missionaries in the Philippines (1 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Christian missionaries in the Philippines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The first Spanish Jesuits in the Philippines, Alonzo Sánchez and Antonio Sedeño, arrived in 1581 as missionaries. They were custodians of the ratio studiorum, the Jesuit system of education developed around 1559. [1] Within a decade of their arrival, the Society, through Fr. Antonio Sedeño, founded the Universidad de San Ignacio in 1590.
Alfredo Verzosa (1877–1954), Bishop of Lipa; Founder of the Missionary Catechists of the Sacred Heart (Ilocos Sur, Philippines) Florencia Cuesta Valluerca (Trinidad of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) (1904–1967), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance (Madrid, Spain - Manila, Philippines) [citation needed]
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.