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Peter Tan-Chi (Senior Pastor/Bishop) Ricky Sarthou (Executive Pastor) Christ's Commission Fellowship (CCF) is an international non-denominational church founded by Peter Tan-Chi, based in the Philippines. Its main worship church is located at the CCF Center in Ortigas East (formerly Frontera Verde), Pasig .
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 church's two ecclesiastical centers, the National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato and the Shrine of the Queen of Patriarchs, are located in Quezon City. [10] According to the church, one of its initial goals was to unite the Western Rite or the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Rite or the Eastern Orthodox Church to form a single Catholic ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the account in the Acts of the Apostles 8:14–17 as a scriptural basis for Confirmation as a sacrament distinct from Baptism: Now when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. Who, when they were come down, prayed for ...
The history of the future Archdiocese of Cebu began with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Cebu in 1521. [11] The church anchored in that year [12] by the native Cebuanos' profession of faith in Christ, [13] baptism, [14] the daily celebration of the Mass, [15] and the chaplain of the expedition, Pedro Valderrama being the legitimate pastor for their spiritual needs.
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 ...
Manila ( Jose F. Advincula) Two Philippine archdioceses have retired archbishops who served as cardinal-archbishop of their archdiocese: Manila ( Gaudencio B. Rosales) Cotabato ( Orlando B. Quevedo) One Filipino cardinal who was formerly a metropolitan archbishop is assigned at the Roman Curia: Luis Antonio G. Tagle.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines [a] (CBCP) is the permanent organizational assembly of the Catholic bishops of the Philippines exercising together certain pastoral offices for the Christian faithful of their territory through apostolic plans, programs and projects suited to the circumstances of time and place in accordance with law for the promotion of the greater good ...