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St. Joseph Cathedral (San Jose, Occidental Mindoro)
Saint Joseph the Worker Cathedral, commonly known as Saint Joseph Cathedral, is a Latin Catholic church building, church in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. It is the episcopal seat of the Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro and its patron saint is Joseph the Worker. History Ecclesiastically, Mindoro was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Manila until the creation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa, Diocese of Lipa in 1910 when Mindoro was transferred under Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa, Lipa. The then Mindoro Province, Mindoro province was made into an apostolic prefecture in 1936 with Bishop William Finneman as head of the apostolic prefecture. Mindoro remained under Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lipa, Lipa. In 1951, following the split of Mindoro Province into the provinces of Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to the Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan. The current chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luzon
Luzon ( , ) is the largest and most populous List of islands in the Philippines, island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the List of islands of the Philippines, Philippine archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, the country's most populous city. With a population of 64 million , it contains 52.5% of the country's total population and is the List of islands by population, 4th most populous island in the world. It is the List of islands by area, 15th largest island in the world by land area. ''Luzon'' may also refer to one of the three primary Island groups of the Philippines, island groups in the country. In this usage, it includes the Luzon Mainland, the Batanes and Babuyan Islands, Babuyan groups of islands to the north, Polillo Islands to the east, and the outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque and Mindoro, among others, to the south. The islands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
