{RELIGION 101} Philippine Independent Church (Aglipayan)

Philippine Independent Church A.K.A. Aglipayan Church

As per their name the Philippine Independent Church or Aglipayan for some is an Catholic centered religion or sector independently ran by their leaders. They're not affiliated with the Vatican or any large scale association, so meaning they have their own rules, money and jurisdictions. So meaning they're somehow more secularist cause they're not enclosed in a box labelled as the Vatican

Gregorio Aglipay

Founder Philippine Independent Church

Gregorio Aglipay was an activist and a Roman Catholic priest from Ilocos Norte who would later be excommunicated by then Archbishop of Manila Bernarduni Nozaleda y Villa for fomenting schism with the pope. During the Philippine Revolution, Isabeko de los Reyes also known as Don Belong and Aglipay acted to reform the Filipino Catholic clergy. Aglipay was the covenor of the Filipino Ecclesiastical Council (Paniqui Assembly), in response to Mabini's manifesto urging the Filipino clergies to organize a Filipino National Chuch. He was a member of the Malolos Congress, the lone member coming from the religious sector though he represented his province Ilocos Norte. He was a guerilla leader of Ilocos Norte during the Philippine-American War with the rank of Lt. General. Following the Philippine-American War, Aglipay and de los Reyes founded the Philippine Independent Church in 1902. The new church rejected the spirituality authority of the Pope (then Pope Leo XIII) and abolished the celibacy requirements for priests, allowing them to marry. At that time, all of its clergy were former Catholic priests.

REMARKABLE MEMBERS

MELCHORA AQUINO
(TANDANG SORA)
MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

APOLINARIO MABINI

THE BRAINCHILD OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION