Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán ( la, Gregorius Aglipay;
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: ''Gregorio Labayan Aglipay Cruz''; 5 May 1860 – 1 September 1940) was a former Filipino
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who became the first
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of the ''
Iglesia Filipina Independiente
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'', an
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Church in the
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in the form of a
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Known for inciting
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rebellion
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among the
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during the
Philippine Revolution and
Philippine–American War
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, he was also a
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who became acquainted with
Isabelo de los Reyes
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, who would start an independent Christian Filipino Church named after Aglipay in 1902.
Aglipay was previously
excommunicated
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by
Archbishop
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Bernardino Norzaleda y Villa of
Manila
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in May 1899, upon the expressed permission of
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. Aglipay later joined
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in May 1918, a society excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. Aglipay later married Pilar Jamias y Ver from
Sarrat
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,
Ilocos Norte
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in 1939 and then died one year later. Followers of Aglipay through the Church colloquially sometimes refer to their membership as ''Aglipayans''.
Early life
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Born in
Batac
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,
Ilocos Norte
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, the third child of Pedro Aglipay Cruz and Victoriana Labayan Hilario, Aglipay was an
orphan
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who grew up in the care of relatives at the
tobacco
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fields in the last volatile decades of the
Spanish occupation of the Philippines
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. He bore deep grievances against the
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of the islands, stemming from abuses within the
agricultural
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system.
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at age fourteen as a tobacco-picking worker for not meeting his tobacco quota, he later moved to the
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of
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in 1876 to study
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under the private tutelage of lawyer Julian Carpio with the financial help of his uncle Francisco del Amor Romas, who was a
menial
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employee of the
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School of Santa Catalina.
After two years of study under Carpio, Aglipay continued his studies at the
Colegio de San Juan de Letran
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on his third year as a working student and later at the
University of Santo Tomas
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where he met
José Rizal
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, a senior medical student. After obtaining his
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in Letran, he discontinued his law studies at Santo Tomas and then entered the
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in
Vigan
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,
Ilocos Sur
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in 1883 as influenced by Rizal.
He was
ordained
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to the
priest
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hood six years later on December 21, 1889 and celebrated his first mass as an ordained Roman Catholic priest in January 1890. He later dropped Cruz in his surname and began a career as an assistant priest in various
parishes
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around the main
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island of
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, notably in the
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, Aglipay gave aid to the
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and employed thirty carpenters who in reality were revolutionists in touch with the
Katipunan
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group. Despite being a priest, Aglipay, like other
revolutionaries
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, later joined
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after the war.
Philippine Revolution
In 1896, the
Katipunan
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was led by the Supremo,
Andrés Bonifacio
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. Manila Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda asked Aglipay to confront the revolutionary leaders, offering them a level of autonomy in the future for the Philippines if they would end
the rebellion. General
Emilio Aguinaldo
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, in turn, sent Colonel Luciano San Miguel to Aglipay with the intention of getting him to join the rebellion. In the course of Aglipay's journey
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, the
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started.
Philippine–American War
When Aglipay returned to Manila and discovered that the
Americans
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had attacked, he joined the revolution. On 20 October 1898, Gen. Aguinaldo appointed Aglipay as Military
Vicar General
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of the revolutionaries. Aglipay interpreted this as making him Ecclesiastical Superior to all Filipino priests who, as such, should all be appointed Military Chaplains for the duration of the war.
["The First Obispo Maximo, Monsignor Gregorio L. Aglipay", Iglesia Filipina Independiente, note 16]
The fighting that broke out between the U.S. and Filipino forces on February 4, 1899 prompted Aglipay to withdraw to Ilocos Norte to organize an armed resistance. On 29 April 1899, Aglipay was excommunicated for "usurpation of ecclesiastical jurisdiction".
[History of Iglesia Filipina Independiente]
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After the war
Following the end of the war in 1902, writer-activist Isabelo de los Reyes
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was working towards the formation of a national church, that is independent of Rome
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. On 3 August, he proclaimed the establishment of the church and suggested that Aglipay be its first bishop. Aglipay, a devout Catholic at the time even after excommunicated, was reluctant as he was initially against a schism
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, but eventually accepted de los Reyes' offer to establish an independent church on September 6, 1902 and was appointed as the first Supreme Bishop or ''Obispo Máximo'' of the "Philippine Independent Church
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" (''Iglesia Filipina Independiente'', also referred as the "Aglipayan Church" after him). He celebrated his first mass as the ''de facto'' Supreme Bishop on October 26, 1902. On January 18, 1903, Aglipay was consecrated to the position of Supreme Bishop by the Church's Bishops of Isabela, Cagayan, Pangasinan, Abra, Nueva Ecija, Cavite, and Manila. As Supreme Bishop, he allied himself with the nationalist and most radical political parties during his time like the Sakdalista
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s and later on even with the Socialist and Communist Parties.
During the theological
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discussions while visiting other Churches on his travels abroad, Aglipay rejected the belief in the Trinity
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, becoming theologically accepting of the main Unitarian belief, however, his own Church refused to accept his amended theology. Aglipay's unitarian and progressive theological ideas were evident in his "novena
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", the ''"Pagsisiyam sa Birhen sa Balintawak"'', 1925 and its English
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translation, ''"Novenary of the Motherland"'', 1926.
Later life
Aglipay ran for elections
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as President
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of the Commonwealth
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under the Republican Party along with Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas
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' candidate Norberto Nabong in a joint Republican-Communist
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Party ticket in 1935,[ but lost to ]Manuel L. Quezon
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and Sergio Osmeña
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of the Nacionalista Party
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, respectively.
Also referred to as '' Apo Aglipay'' by his followers, he married
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then 64-year-old Pilar Jamias y Ver, a teacher from Sarrat
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The town is ...
, Ilocos Norte, in 1939 since his Church permits married clergy, but he died
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the following year on 1 September 1940 due to natural causes
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, aged 80. Although he had for many years opposed celibacy among the priesthood, he himself was not married until the age of 79. His remains were interred at the Cathedral of Saint Mary, Aglipay National Shrine in Batac, Ilocos Norte. Aglipay held the position of Supreme Bishop until his death.
Aglipay was on trial calendars in the Episcopal Church's calendar of saints in the years 2009 and 2015 but the aforementioned calendars were never made official and his feast is not part of current proposals.
References
Sources
* Halili, Christine N. (2004) ''Philippine History'', pp 192–93. .
External links
*
Correspondence of Supreme Bishop Gregorio Aglipay (1902-1905)
* Th
historical records
of Archbishop Gregorio Aglipay of the Independent Church of the Philippines are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School
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in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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.
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