The Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John is an

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

church in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It serves as the National Cathedral of the

Episcopal Church in the Philippines The Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP; tl, Simbahang Episkopal sa Pilipinas; Ilocano: ''Simabaan nga Episkopal iti Filipinas'') is a province of the Anglican Communion comprising the country of the Philippines. It was established by the ...

. It was established by Bishop Charles Henry Brent from the then Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America initially catering to American and European expatriates in the Philippines. It later also served Filipinos. The groundbreaking of the original church building in

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situated near Isaac Peral Street was made on January 25, 1905. The construction finished in 1907. The building funded through donations cost at least $120 thousand. The building was seized by the Japanese on July 8, 1944, during the

Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: ''Pananakop ng mga Japones sa Filipinas''; ja, 日本のフィリピン占領, Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the ...

amidst

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and was used as an internment camp. It was destroyed during the Battle of Manila of 1945. The Manila Pavilion Hotel currently occupies the old site. Bishop Lyman C. Ogilby held talks with John Van Wie Bergamini, the veteran architect of the Episcopal Church throughout the Far East in 1954 in America which led to the construction of the structure currently occupied by the cathedral which was consecrated on February 9, 1962.

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File:National Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint John (Episcopal Church in the Philippines) 07.jpg, Facade in April 2023 File:San Juan and Quezon City 44.jpg, Historical marker File:San Juan and Quezon City 47.jpg, Interior File:National Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint John (Episcopal Church in the Philippines) 02.jpg,

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File:Ellington 165.jpg, Destroyed during the Battle of Manila in 1945.

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{{reflist Protestant cathedrals in the Philippines Buildings and structures in Quezon City Churches in Quezon City 1903 establishments in the Philippines Churches completed in 1962 20th-century churches in the Philippines