The Philippine Independent Church (Filipino: Malayang Simbahan ng Pilipinas; Ilocano: Nawaya a Simbaan ti Filipinas), officially referred to by its Philippine Spanish name Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) and colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, is an independent catholic [e] Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church ...

Philippine Independent Church, independent church organized in 1902 after the Philippine revolution of 1896–98 as a protest against the Spanish clergy’s control of the Roman Catholic Church. Cofounders of the church were Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino, author, labour leader, and senator, who was

2014年2月3日 · This document outlines the history of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), also known as the Philippine Independent Church. It traces the church's origins from Fr. Gregorio Aglipay separating from the Roman Catholic Church …

2019年8月7日 · This document outlines the history of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), also known as the Philippine Independent Church. It traces the church's origins from Fr. Gregorio Aglipay separating from the Roman Catholic Church …

The church envisions a Philippine nation that is free from foreign domination, where justice and peace reign, and whose people are united in active witness to God's love in the world. The IFI now has two colleges in Manila and in Southern Leyte, three theological seminaries, 14 primary and secondary schools, and many kindergartens.

It traces its origin from the struggle of the Filipino clergy against racial discrimination and friar domination within the Roman Church in the 19th century, which, consequently, transformed into a nationalist crusade for the absolute Filipinization of the …

2011年8月2日 · The Independent Church has by and large been spared overt persecution by the dominant Church both because of an American-introduced concept of free speech and freedom of religion, and because the Roman Church has itself pursued a new policy since the removal of the Spanish friars early in the American period.

2012年7月4日 · Most members of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) take pride in the notion that their Church is nationalist and the “only one” that can teach patriotism or love of country of the Filipinos. They romantically picture their church as the …

2018年5月23日 · PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT CHURCH. Also known as Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), or more popularly as the Aglipayans, after its founding leader and first supreme bishop, Gregorio Aglipay.

2020年3月9日 · In August 1902, members of the country’s first labor federation, the Union Obrero Democratica (UOD) proclaimed a break from the Roman Catholic Church, a symbol of colonial oppression. Thus, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) …