The Saint Joseph the Worker Cathedral commonly known as the Saint Joseph Cathedral is a

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in San Jose,

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. It is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro and its patron saint is Joseph the Worker.

History

Ecclesiastically,

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was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Manila until the creation of the Diocese of Lipa in 1910 when Mindoro was transferred under

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. The then

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was made into an apostolic prefecture in 1936 with Bishop William Finneman as head of the apostolic prefecture. Mindoro was still under

. In 1951, following the split of Mindoro Province into the provinces of

and Oriental Mindoro, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to the

Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan The Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan (Latin: ''Vicariatus Apostolicus Calapanensis'') is a Latin Church missionary jurisdiction or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. In 2010, 756,000 residents had been bap ...

. The current church building was constructed under the administration of the parish priest George Koschinski. Prior to the church building constructed under Koschinski, the chapel of San Jose used a

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which was used by the Allied Forces during the

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. The replacement church structure was built by both German and Filipino Catholics and was blessed by the Apostolic Vicar of Calapan, Bishop William Duschak, on September 30, 1962.

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created the

Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro The Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro is a Latin Church missionary jurisdiction or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in the western part of Mindoro island in the Philippines. Its cathedra is within the Cathedral of St. Joseph ...

which composes the whole province of

on January 27, 1983. Vicente C. Manuel was appointed as first apostolic vicar. Manuel was ordained as a bishop on June 29, 1983. Within the same year the church was converted into a

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. Antonio P. Palang was appointed as second apostolic vicar on May 31, 2002. Pablito M. Tagura was appointed as third Apostolic Vicar on December 17, 2022.

Patrons

Saint Joseph Joseph (; el, Ἰωσήφ, translit=Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. The Gospels also name some brothers of ...

is the primary and titular patron of the St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral whose feast day is on May 1.

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is the secondary patroness of the church whose feast day is on May 13.

References

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