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    The document summarizes the history of Catholicism in the Philippines. It describes how Spanish missionaries first brought Catholicism to the Philippines in the 16th century. They built many churches throughout the country over the 400 years of Spanish colonial rule. While this period was often difficult for Filipinos, Catholicism became deeply ingrained in Philippine society and culture. By 2011, about 75.5 million Filipinos, or around 80% of the population, identified as Roman Catholic.

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    The document summarizes the history of Catholicism in the Philippines. It describes how Spanish missionaries first brought Catholicism to the Philippines in the 16th century. They built many churches throughout the country over the 400 years of Spanish colonial rule. While this period was often difficult for Filipinos, Catholicism became deeply ingrained in Philippine society and culture. By 2011, about 75.5 million Filipinos, or around 80% of the population, identified as Roman Catholic.

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    The document summarizes the history of Catholicism in the Philippines. It describes how Spanish missionaries first brought Catholicism to the Philippines in the 16th century. They built many churches throughout the country over the 400 years of Spanish colonial rule. While this period was often difficult for Filipinos, Catholicism became deeply ingrained in Philippine society and culture. By 2011, about 75.5 million Filipinos, or around 80% of the population, identified as Roman Catholic.

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    The Historical Foundation of The Philippine Church

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    Krisia E. Castuciano,
    BSN 4
    INTRODUCTION
    The Roman Catholic Church in the
    Philippines is part of the worldwide Catholic
    Church, with its head being the Pope. It is
    also one of two nations in Asia with a
    predominantly Roman Catholic population
    (the other being East Timor), and is
    the third largest Catholic country in the
    world (after Brazil and Mexico).
    INTRODUCTION
    The faith was brought to what is now
    the Philippines by Spanish missionaries and
    colonizers, who arrived in waves beginning
    in the 16th century. Compared to
    the Spanish Era when Catholicism was
    the de facto state religion, Christianity in
    the Philippines today is a spectrum of
    Catholic adaptation, which sits alongside
    various other Christian denominations of
    foreign and local origin.
    INTRODUCTION
    In general, the Philippines has the strongest
    Christian influence in Asia, and a majority
    of Filipinos practice the faith in different
    ways, from the ultra-orthodox, traditional
    sort, to Folk Catholicism and
    even Charismatic Catholicism. In 2011, it
    was estimated that there were 75.5 million
    of Filipino Catholics, or roughly 80% of the
    population.
    The hundreds of churches that were built
    throughout the Philippines were a product
    of the missionary enterprise of the Spanish
    regime that began in 1521.
    On March 16, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan, a
    Portuguese-turned-Spanish navigator,
    reached the island of Homonhon in Samar,
    the easternmost island in the archipelago.
    Magellans discovery of the archipelago
    was accidental; he was on a route
    westward across the Pacific in search of
    Oriental spices and the riches of the
    Indies.
    The Catholic religion was introduced
    in the islands as soon as the Spanish
    landed in Samar.
    In March 31, 1521, the first mass ever
    performed in the archipelago was held
    on the shore of Limasawa.
    This momentous event was signified
    by the planting of a wooden cross on a
    hill overlooking the sea.
    This cross would symbolize the first
    Christianization attempt of the islands
    by the Spanish missionaries.
    In a skirmish with the natives led by a
    chieftain named Lapulapu, Magellan
    was not to return to Spain alive.
    Three years after sailing from San Lucar
    where the voyage started, the remainder of
    Magellans expedition team completed the
    first circumnavigation attempt of the globe.
    It was 22 years later when the archipelago
    was once more rediscovered by the Spanish,
    this time by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos.
    He claimed the archipelago under the
    Spanish rule and named it Philippines in
    honor of King Philip of Spain.
    The arrival of the Spanish General Miguel
    Lopez de Legaspi in February 1565, 44 years
    after Magellans discovery of the islands,
    marked the beginning of Spanish influx in
    the new colony, most of them coming from
    New Spain or Mexico.
    This renewed interest in the archipelago
    was prompted by the orders of Philip II to
    the Viceroy of New Spain to Christianize the
    islands as well as to use it as a base for the
    spice trade in the region.
    The cross, along with the sword, ruled the
    new colony for almost 400 years.
    Throughout this period, the culture and way of life
    of the people in the archipelago took on a path
    that was dominantly controlled and determined by
    the Spanish conquistadors.
    Except for pockets and areas where there were very
    strong resistance against the colonizers, such as
    the people in the Cordillera region and in southern
    Mindanao, the natives eventually adapted to a
    Christian way of life.
    Other influences inevitably affected the
    course of life in the archipelago, including
    the form of government, economy, lifestyle,
    and educational system.
    Yet, the colonial atmosphere was very
    disadvantageous, often very painful and
    bitter, to the colonized people.
    To remedy the growing dissatisfaction of the
    people, the Spanish activated political,
    economic, and social reforms in the late 18th
    and early 19th centuries.
    While foreign education became accessible
    only to a privileged fewthe illustradosit
    had a paradoxical effect to the peoples
    struggle for freedom from the colonizers.
    The illustrados became instrumental in
    revealing and articulating the atrocities of
    the Spanish regime.
    The nationalistic fever of a few natives
    spread throughout the country and led to
    numerous skirmishes against the Spanish
    authority.
    Finally, the nationalistic movement
    catapulted to the Philippine revolution of
    1896. In 1899, the last of the Spanish fleet
    left the Philippines for the last time.
    Behind them, they left, among many
    irrevocable influences, hundreds of brick
    and stone churches throughout the
    archipelago.
    Sources:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_
    the_Philippines#History
    http://philippinechurch.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/bri
    ef-history-of-philippine-churches/

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