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Diocese Of Romblon
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Romblon () is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. A constituent of the Latin Church, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Capiz. Its titular patron is St. Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and its secondary patron is the Santo Niño. Erected in 1974, the diocese has experienced no jurisdictional changes in that time. The diocese is divided into six vicariates and has twenty-four parishes, ministered by thirty priests and one religious brother of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). It covers a land area of and has a population of 227,621 of which 87 per cent are Catholics. Ecclesiastical District of Romblon & Maghali Islands Ecclesiastical District of Tablas Ecclesiastical District of Sibuyan See also *Catholic Church in the Philippines *Bishop of Romblon References {{authority control Romblon Romblon Romblon (, , ), officially the Province of Romblon, is an archipelagic province of the Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romblon Cathedral
Saint Joseph Cathedral Parish, commonly known as Romblon Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Romblon town, in the province of Romblon, Philippines. One of the province's known landmarks, it is the seat of the Diocese of Romblon and was declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2001 by the National Museum of the Philippines. History In 1631, the Christian community in Romblon island where the cathedral stands today was formally organized. The island faced the same fate with the adjacent Tablas, Sibuyan and nearby Marinduque, having been frequented by Moro raiders from the south. When the Portuguese Recollect friar Agustin de San Pedro from Cagayan de Misamis in Mindanao was transferred to Romblon in 1644, he immediately spearheaded the construction of the Romblon's church and belfry due to the said raid attacks. Also because of the attacks, he trained the natives to defend themselves with military armaments and ordered constructions of structures that fortified the is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banton, Romblon
Banton, officially the Municipality of Banton ( Bantoanon: ''Banwa it Banton'', Filipino: ''Bayan ng Banton'', formerly known as Jones), is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 5,737 people. Its territory encompasses the entire Banton Island and a few uninhabited smaller islands. The island is located in the northern portion of the province and lies in the northern portion of the Sibuyan Sea near the southern tip of Marinduque. It is a town of about 5,000 people majority of which speak the Bantoanon language (also known as Asi), one of the five primary branches of the Bisayan languages. Banton is thought to have been inhabited by Filipinos since the pre-colonial period, based on analysis of human remains, coffins, an ancient burial cloth and other archaeological finds discovered at the Guyangan Cave System by the National Museum in 1936. The present settlement was founded in 1622 by the Spanish and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looc, Romblon
Looc, officially the Municipality of Looc, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 21,799 people. History Early history Looc is from the Filipino/ Onhan word ''look'', meaning "bay", referring to the body of water the town encloses. The first settlers of Looc where Onhan-speaking tribes from Panay Island which came around 1730. The settlement was originally a barrio of the ''pueblo'' (town) of Cabolutan (located in present-day San Agustin) until 1790, when the town's population was wiped-out by a smallpox epidemic and the town was abolished. The abolition transferred Looc under the administration of pueblo de Banton in Banton Island.Looc, Romblon. Reference.com Retrieved on 2012-04-18. In the early 1800s, the settlement continued to progress and increa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcantara, Romblon
Alcantara, officially the Municipality of Alcantara, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,171 people. History Alcantara was first established in 1730 as ''La Lauan'', a barrio of Looc town by migrants from Panay Island led by Don Ciriaco Alcantara. In 1855, the barrio was annexed from Looc and converted into a ''pueblo'' or town. However, in 1868, it was abolished and annexed as a barrio of Guintigui-an town (renamed Badajoz, now San Agustin) after a reorganization of municipalities resulting from the creation of Romblon province. In 1870, due to continuous intimidation from Muslim pirates, as well as the rugged terrain, the residents of La Lauan led by a certain Gaspar Guevarra transferred from its former site in Daan Banwa (or Old Town) and established a new barrio down south called Alcantara, after Don Ciriaco Alcantara. In 1885, it was annexed back as a barrio of Looc, and would remain so until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe, Romblon
Santa Fe, officially the Municipality of Santa Fe, is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,802 people. History Legend says that the barrio was named after a beautiful, lovely daughter of one of its early settlers of the place. She was so loved and revered by the locals that they named her ''Santa Fe'', and in her death, they named the place after her. However, in ''Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas'' by Spanish conquistador Miguel de Loarca, it states that the barrio was named after Santa Fe in the province of Granada in Spain. Its first settlers were Onhan-speaking Negritos from Panay Island who emigrated to Tablas as early as 1730. During the Spanish colonial period, Santa Fe was a barrio of neighboring Looc town until 1855 when it was established as a separate ''pueblo'' or town. It was abolished and reverted into a barrio again in 1868. In 1892, the Spaniards restored Santa Fe's municipal status, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrol, Romblon
Ferrol, officially the Municipality of Ferrol, is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 8,005 people. History Ferrol was established in 1850 as a barrio of Odiongan by the Spain, Spanish colonial authorities. They discovered the place 10 kilometers south-west after repulsing and chasing a convoy of Muslim pirates that attacked Odiongan. The Spaniards noticed the resemblance of the bay of the vicinity similar to that of Ferrol, Spain, which is the home port of Spain, Spain's Spanish Navy, Maritime Department of the North; hence the town's name. In 1978, in order to consolidate the Onhan, Onhan-speaking barangays of Odiongan into one municipality, Assemblyman Nemesio Ganan Jr. authored a bill in the Congress of the Philippines which created Ferrol, together with the barangays of Agnocnoc, Bunsoran, Hinagoman, Tubigon, and Claro M. Recto into a new municipali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odiongan, Romblon
Odiongan, officially the Municipality of Odiongan ( Asi: ''Banwa it Odiongan'', Filipino: ''Bayan ng Odiongan''), is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 49,284 people. It is composed of 25 barangays. With Odiongan having the largest income and population in the province of Romblon, the town has grown to become a major port and the commercial center of the province. History Early history There is a legend that the inhabitants there found an ''"odiong"'' (local term for "arrow") struck onto a tree; thus, the place was called ''inodiongan'', meaning "struck by an arrow", which later metamorphosed to Odiongan. Historically, Odiongan, as the largest municipality on Tablas Island, Romblon, was first inhabited by the Negritos and the Mangyan tribes from Panay Island to the south and Mindoro Island to the west, respectively. This was followed shortly by Onhan-speaking settlers from Panay. Around 1810, a group o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Ferrer
Vincent Ferrer, Dominican Order, OP ( ; ; ; ; ; ; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Kingdom of Valencia, Valencian Dominican Order, Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer traveled to preach across Western Europe and the British Isles. His preaching has been credited in some sources as converting 25,000 Jews to Catholicism, other sources indicate that they involved supporting coercive means, such as the forcible conversion of synagogues into churches. He was canonized in 1455. Early life Vincent was the fourth child of Guillem Ferrer, a notary from Palamós, and his wife, Constança Miquel, apparently from Valencia itself or Girona. Legends surround Vincent's birth. It was said that his father was told in a dream by a Dominican friar that his son would be famous throughout the world. His mother is said never to have experienced pain when she gave birth to him. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calatrava, Romblon
Calatrava, officially the Municipality of Calatrava ( Asi: ''Banwa it Calatrava'', Filipino: ''Bayan ng Calatrava'', formerly Andagao), is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 11,342 people. History Early history Calatrava, once a barrio in the town of San Agustin (then called ''Badajoz'') in Tablas Island. During pre-Spanish period, the place was called ''"Andagao"'', named after a medicinal plant growing in abundance everywhere in the locality especially in places along the shore. Around 1810, the first settlers in Andagao migrated from Banton and Romblon islands, as well as in central parts of Tablas Island, in search of lands more suitable for agriculture. The Simaranhons, Sibalenhons and Bantoanons were the first settlers of the municipality and joined later by migrants from Odiongan of which, like them, spoke Asi. Today, this group of people made up the great portion of its residents, while the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Maria, Romblon
Santa Maria, officially the Municipality of Santa Maria, (formerly Imelda), is a municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 8,989 people. Etymology The place got its name from Santa Maria in it was renamed in 1988. History Santa Maria was known in Spanish times as ''Cagbagacay'', after a bamboo plant called ''"bagacay"'' in the local dialect, which was in abundance in the area. Back then it was still a barrio of Guintigui-an town. In 1910, barrio Cagbagacay was renamed Concepcion after its patron the Immaculada Concepcion.About Santa Maria Wikimapia. Retrieved on April 16, 2012. On September 12, 1982, barrio Concepcion (Norte) together with barrios Bonga and Concepcion Sur were organized and created into a new municipality by virtue of Batas Pam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immaculate Concepcion
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Debated by medieval theologians, it was not defined as a dogma until 1854, by Pope Pius IX in the papal bull ''Ineffabilis Deus''. While the Immaculate Conception asserts Mary's freedom from original sin, the Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563, had previously affirmed her freedom from personal sin. The Immaculate Conception became a popular subject in literature, but its abstract nature meant it was late in appearing as a subject in works of art. The iconography of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception shows Mary standing, with arms outstretched or hands clasped in prayer. The feast day of the Immaculate Conception is December 8. Many Protestant churches rejected the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as unscriptural, though some Anglicans accept it as a pious devotion. The teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Agustin, Romblon
San Agustín, officially the Municipality of San Agustín, (formerly Guintigui-an and Badajoz), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,115 people. Etymology On 20 June 1957, by virtue of Republic Act No. 1660, Badajoz Town was changed to San Agustin, after the town's Saint Augustine, patron saint. History San Agustín was known during Spanish times as ''Guintigui-an'' because of the abundance of a fish called ''"tigue"'' in the area. Negrito and Mangyan tribes from Panay and Mindoro were the first inhabitants, as well as migrants from island of Romblon, Romblon, Romblon, and southern Tablas Island, Tablas.Profile: San Agustin Romblon Travel Guide. Retrieved on 2012-04-16. In the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
