Word: aglipay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More important, who is Archbishop Aglipay? Born 76 years ago, educated in Catholic schools, elevated to the priesthood for pure motive, not as you say "because it seemed to offer material advancement," he was made superintendent of a district and performed many of the duties of a bishop. In those distant days no Filipino was made a Bishop. Together with other distinguished Filipinos, in 1905 he led many people into the Independent Church. You say that this church is credited today with 1,000,000 members. Witnesses credit it with 3,000,000 members...
...True, Aglipay was in arms against the U. S. Government, but when he became convinced that the contest was hopeless he surrendered. Since his surrender he has loyally upheld the administration. After William Howard Taft retired from the Governorship, he accepted the position of honorary President of the Independent Church. All through his administration he was a friend of Archbishop Aglipay...
From its beginnings, the Unitarians all over the world have been interested in the Independent Church. . . . In 1931 Archbishop Aglipay, together with Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes, son of the distinguished publicist of Manila, came to this country as guests of the Unitarian churches of the U. S. and Canada. They were received most cordially by many churches, colleges and universities and by men in public positions. They were received by President Hoover...
Three years ago Archbishop Aglipay and Bishop de los Reyes again visited the U. S. on their way to the International Congress of Religious Liberals held at Copenhagen. They were received as honored guests in America, England, Czechoslovakia, where they are in touch with the Czech National Church, and in other parts of the continent. In Denmark the Archbishop was personally welcomed by the King. This vigorous, indomitable, and patient servant of all good things in the Philippine Islands, and the beloved Archbishop of a large group of devoted people, surely is not only worthy of the affection in which...
...reporting the conflict between Bishop Dougherty and Archbishop Aglipay, TIME had no intention of disparaging the latter able churchman or his friends. Welcoming Unitarian Cornish's extended mention of the Archbishop, TIME would hesitate, however, to call Aglipay's people "not of the Catholic faith." Bishop Dougherty considered them "lapsed Catholics," and in the case of the millions he brought back to the Church he would seem to have been right. Before Archbishop Aglipay became friends with Governor Taft, a Unitarian, he claimed that his Church was Catholic in everything save that it repudiated Rome, abandoned the confessional...