NAME OF JESUS (CEBU), ARCHDIOCESE OF. - Archdiocese in the Philippine Islands.

Over an area of 4,329 sq km live 1,122,132 inhabitants, of whom 1,112,264 are Catholics. It has 64 parishes served by 74 diocesan priests and 60 regulars, a seminary, 5 male religious communities and 10 female (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 291).

It was founded on 14 August 1595 by Clement VIII, with the erection of the ecclesiastical province of Manila. From it were later dismembered the diocese of Jaro (1865), the apostolic prefecture of the Marianas (1902), the dioceses of Zamboanga and Calbayog (1910). In 1934 C. was elevated to a metropolitan see; the archiepiscopal residence is in C.

The territory was discovered in 1521 by Magellan. Seven Augustinians, led by Andrea de Urdaneta, began the missionary work in 1565; the Jesuits joined them in 1595. The conversion of the Philippines had its origin in C. Even today the fortified churches recall the times of the raids of the Mohammedan Moros. From 1814-1819 the secular clergy of the diocese of C. administered the missions of the Marianas.

The Verbites direct the University of S. Carlos, recognized by the government since 1948, with 3,078 students in the Faculties of law, commerce, civil engineering, pedagogy, liberal arts, chemistry, pharmacy, domestic economy.

Bibliography

BIBL.: F. Redondo y Sendino, Breve reseño de lo que fué y de lo que es la Diocesía de C. en las Islas Filipinas, Manila 1886.

Nicola Kowalsky

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