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This is a timeline of Philippine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Philippines and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of the Philippines .
Before 971 – c. 1339 Mindoro Island, parts of Southern Luzon: Sanmalan: Before 982 – 1500s Zamboanga: Butuan: Before 989 – 1521 Butuan, parts of Northern Mindanao and Caraga: Caboloan: Before 1225 – 1572 San Carlos City, Pangasinan Sandao: Before 1225 – c. 1300s Calamian, Palawan, and parts of Luzon: Namayan: Before the 11th century ...
Many of the traditions and belief systems from pre-colonial Filipino religions continue to be practiced today through the Indigenous Philippine folk religions, Folk Catholicism, Folk Hinduism, among others. The original faith of the people of the Philippines were the Indigenous Philippine folk religions.
The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; e.g., the fourth bishop of Manila is written "IV Manila". Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is the current bishop of that diocese. Titular sees are not listed. Under consecrators are the numbers (or letters) referencing ...
The policy coerced inhabitants of several far-flung and scattered barangays to move into a centralized cabecera (town) where a newly built church was situated. This allowed the Spanish government to control the movement of the indigenous population, to easily facilitate Christianization , to conduct population counts , and to collect tributes .
Church and state were inseparably linked in Spanish policy, with the state assuming responsibility for religious establishments. [255] One of Spain's objectives in colonialization of the Philippines was the conversion of the local population to Roman Catholicism.
The Ilustrados "enlightened ones" constituted the Filipino educated class during the Spanish colonial period in the late 19th century. Mostly based outside the Philippines, they helped mold the flame of a united Filipino nationalism and identity in the islands. Almost all previous insurgencies were tribal, provincial and regional in nature.
De los Reyes managed to rally enough people from his organization, Unión Obrera Democrática Filipina, the first modern labor union federation in the country wherein he was its first president, to materialize an independent and purely Filipino-led church "conserving all that is good in the Roman Church and eliminating all the deceptions which ...