Word: aglipayan
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...there are some 700,000 Moslems (the proud, independent tribesmen on Mindanao and Sulu whom the Spaniards named Moros after their own Moors), pagans (some 625,000), Buddhists (about 47,000), Shintoists (13,000), Protestants (600,000) and more than 2,000,000 members of the Filipino Independent, or Aglipayan, Church, an offshoot of Catholicism...
...past four years, Reyes and Fonacier have been fighting through the courts the question of who is supreme, and, incidentally, whether the Aglipayans will continue their uncomfortable liaison with Unitarianism or confirm an alliance with the Episcopal Church arranged in 1947. Though Fonacier plans to appeal, the decision of the court in favor of Reyes seems to have placed the 320 churches and 1,000 chapels of the Aglipayan Church within the Episcopalian fold...
Soon as Bishop Dougherty arrived in his See city, Vigan, and found his residence sacked, its library scattered, its chapel fouled from having been used as a stable and the cathedral in possession of an Aglipayan priest, this sturdy son of Patrick and Bridget Dougherty girded for action. He gathered a band of loyal Catholics, braved a shower of stones to wrest the cathedral from the Aglipayan. Arming his flock he toured his diocese reopening and reconsecrating churches, confirming as many as 70,000 Filipino children at a time, spending weeks on horseback and at times paddling his own canoe...
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