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Pope Francis made a pastoral and state visit to the Philippines from January 15 to 19, 2015. He was the third pontiff to visit the Philippines after Paul VI in 1970 and John Paul II in 1981 and 1995, officially the first papal visit in the 21st century and 3rd millennium after the title was originally scheduled for World Meeting of Families twelve years earlier in 2003 but postponed due to ...
Pope Paul VI (1970) was the target of an assassination attempt at Manila International Airport in the Philippines in 1970. [150] The assailant, a Bolivian surrealist painter named Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores , lunged toward Pope Paul with a kris , but was subdued.
Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
Luis Antonio Chito Gokim Tagle (/ ˈ t ɑː ɡ l eɪ / TAH-glay; Tagalog: [lʊˈwis ɐnˈtonɪo 'taɡlɛ]; born June 21, 1957) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church currently serving as the Pro-Prefect for the Section of Evangelization of Dicastery for Evangelization (formerly the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) since June 5, 2022, [2] and as the President of ...
Apostolic Nuncio. Most Rev. Charles John Brown, DD. The Apostolic Nunciature in the Philippines is a top-level diplomatic mission assigned by the Holy See to the Philippines, located at 2140 Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila. Diplomatically, an Apostolic Nuncio may be equivalent to an ambassador, and often carries the ecclesial title of archbishop.
The Philippines has produced nine cardinals. The population of Catholics in the Philippines constitutes the country's largest religious denomination, as well as one of the largest Catholic populations among countries of the world. The Catholic faith was introduced to the Philippines by Spanish colonists in the sixteenth century. Some 400 years ...
On October 27, 2018, [46] Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda, then-Archbishop of Osaka, as his papal legate for this occasion. [47] On December 1, Pope Francis wrote a letter to Cardinal Maeda, calling the cathedral as the "mother and head of the churches" in the Philippines. The pope further wrote in his letter: [48]
The Archdiocese of Manila (Latin: Archidioecesis Manilensis; Filipino: Arkidiyosesis ng Maynilà; Spanish: Arquidiócesis de Manila) is the archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Metro Manila, Philippines, encompassing the cities of Manila, Makati, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Pasay, Taguig (Embo barangays only), and Quezon City (EDSA Shrine only).