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Baguio (UK: / ˈ b æ ɡ i oʊ / BAG-ee-oh, US: / ˈ b ɑː ɡ i oʊ, ˌ b ɑː ɡ i ˈ oʊ / BAH-ghee-oh, - OH, Tagalog:), officially the City of Baguio (Ibaloi: Siudad ne Bagiw; Ilocano: Siudad ti Baguio; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Baguio), is a highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines.
The Diocese of Baguio (Latin: Dioecesis Baghiopolitana) is a Latin Church suffragan diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines comprising the city of Baguio and the province of Benguet on Luzon island in the Philippines. Its see is the Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral in Baguio, Benguet, Cordillera Administrative Region.
During the Second World War, the cathedral served as an evacuation center, and was the only building in Baguio that withstood the carpet-bombing of the city by American forces during liberation on March 15, 1945. Former Baguio mayor Virginia de Guia, recalled that refugees "packed the church like sardines when the airplanes came". [2]
Sinai Hamada (1911 – September 1991), founder of Baguio Midland Courier; Joan Carling (born 1963), environmentalist and human rights defender; Maria Lorena Barros (1948–1976), activist, feminist, Anti-Martial Law hero; Sef Gonzales (born 1980), convicted murderer who killed his family in Australia serving 3x life sentences without parole
The Baguio Midland Courier was an English-language weekly community newspaper published by Hamada Printers and Publishers Corporation in Baguio, Philippines. [1] It served the Cordillera and nearby regions every Sunday from 1947 to 2024.
The University of Baguio (UB; Filipino: Pamantasan ng Baguio), formerly Baguio Technical and Commercial Institute (Baguio Tech), is a private, Filipino, multidisciplinary, autonomous university in Baguio, Philippines. It was founded by Fernando Gonzaga Bautista and Rosa Castillo Bautista on August 8, 1948, with 80 students.
During the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the airport was planned to be closed and converted into an extension of the Baguio City Economic Zone in 2008. That however was discouraged by the officials of the Baguio city government. During its closure to commercial flights, the airport was used by military and private aircraft.
The university has three campuses in Baguio, which include: the main campus located at Governor Pack Road; the Legarda campus; and Campo Libertad located at Hamada Road. The main campus is at the city center, near Our Lady of Atonement Church (the Baguio Cathedral) and SM City Baguio.