Calapan Cathedral

{{Short description|Roman Catholic church in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines}}

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| name = Calapan Cathedral

| fullname = Santo Niño Cathedral

| native_name = {{unbulleted list|{{native name|es|Parroquial Catedral del Santo Niño}}|{{native name|fil|Parokyang Katedral ni Santo Niño}}}}

| image = Sto Nino Church Calapan.jpg

| caption = Cathedral facade in 2019

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| location = Calapan, Oriental Mindoro

| country = Philippines

| denomination = Roman Catholic

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| founded date = 1679

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| parish = Santo Niño

| deanery = Santo Niño

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| archdiocese = Lipa

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| diocese = Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan

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| archbishop = Gilbert Armea Garcera

| bishop = Moises Magpantay Cuevas

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| rector = Andy Peter Lubi

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Santo Niño Cathedral, commonly known as Calapan Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, dedicated to the Santo Niño. It is the episcopal seat of the Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan{{cite web |title=Cathedral of Santo Niño Calapan City, MINDORO ORIENTAL, MIMAROPA, Philippines |url=http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/asia/2626.htm |access-date=March 9, 2021 |work=GCatholic}} and is a marked historical structure by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.{{cite web |title=The Philippine Registry of Cultural Property (PRECUP) |url=https://ncca.gov.ph/philippine-registry-cultural-property-precup/ |access-date=March 9, 2021 |work=National Commission for Culture and the Arts}}

History

File:Calapan Church historical marker.jpg historical marker installed in 1952]]

The church and parish mission of Calapan was founded in 1679 by the priest Diego de la Madre de Dios, an Augustinian Recollect. Under de la Madre de Dios, the church was fortified with stone walls. Due to frequent Moro raids in the island, two watchtowers and twenty cannons were also installed in the church and its environs. In another Moro raid on October 23, 1754, Andres de Jesus y Maria, then the parish priest of Calapan, and many people taking refuge in the church, were taken as hostages and were brought to Mindanao. In August 1881, the church was burned, and was reconstructed in 1887. Revolutionists in 1898 prior to the Philippine-American War occupied the church. In 1936, the Apostolic Prefecture of Mindoro, then comprising the present-day provinces of Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro and Romblon, was carved from the territories of the dioceses of Jaro and Lipa. Towards the end of the World War II in 1945, the church this time was occupied by the Americans and was turned over the Filipinos in the same year. In 1951, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to the Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan. In 1962, the present cathedral was finished. The Calapan Vicariate subsequently lost territories to establish the Diocese of Romblon in 1974 and the Apostolic Vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro in 1983.{{cite web |title=Calapan Cathedral Marker |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calapan_Church_historical_marker.jpg |work=Wikimedia Commons}}{{cite web |title=Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan |url=https://www.ucanews.com/directory/dioceses/philippines-calapan/468 |access-date=March 9, 2021 |work=Union of Catholic Asian News}}

Gallery

File:Calapan Church Side View.jpg|The cathedral's side entrances and parking area

File:Santo Niño Cathedral in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro.jpg|Close-up of breeze block-style features of the facade and the bell tower

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