Calape Church
Saint Vincent Ferrer Parish Church, commonly known as Calape Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Calape, Bohol, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Tagbilaran. The church was established in 1802, the year the town of Calape was founded. Vincent Ferrer is the patron saint of the church and town. The church was first managed by Order of Augustinian Recollects, Augustinian Recollect missionaries, and later turned over in 1898 to secular priests. The church was damaged by the 7.2-magnitude 2013 Bohol earthquake and restored in 2019. It was designated in 2023 as a List of National Cultural Treasures in the Philippines, National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines. History Calape Church originally had a stone foundation, with Nypa fruticans, nipa palm roofing and walls made from ''tabique pampango'', a thin partition wall made of interwoven pieces of bamboo or hardwood slats plastered over with a coating of lim ...
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