Rizal Province directory, Volume I.

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

IN RIZAL, as well as in other parts of the archipelago,
with the exception of a few scattered pagan communities, the
dominant belief is Christianity. Although one cannot tell precisely what was the ancient religion of the Filipinos, yet from
the little information that has tickled down through the centuries, it appears that the old inhabitants of these islands believed
in deities and spirits.
As at present observed, the principal Christian sects in the
Philippines are the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, the Aglipayan Church and the various Protestant denominations.
The following contains brief descriptions of the organization, activities and extent of each for the archipelago:
ROMAN CATHOLIC CIURCH-Archbishop 1; bishops including
Guam 15; secular priests over 1000; religious priests 650 (Augustinians,
Belgian Fathers, Benedictines of Monserrat, Benedictine Missionaries, Capuchins, Columbian Fathers, Fathers of the Society of the Divine Word,
Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuit Fathers, Olbetos de San Jose, Maryknoll
Fathers, Australian Province, Redemptorist Fathers, Irish Province, Sacred
Heart Missionaries, and Christian Brothers); religious sisters devoted to
teaching, nursing, etc., 1500 (Agustinas Terciarias de Filipinas, Agustinas Terciarias Recoletas, Benedictine Sisters of St. Otilla, Congregacion
de las Hijas de la Caridad o de S. Vicente, Companiia de Beatas de la Virgen Maria, Dominican Mothers; Assumption Sisters, Belgian sisters, Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Ghost, Maryknoll Sisters, Franciscan
Sisters, Good Shepherd Sisters, Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Oblates Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Sisters of St. Paul de
Charters, Madres Clarisas, Carmelite Sisters, Sisters of the Holy Ghost,
Benedictines of the Eucharistic King); religious lay brothers 100; churches
not less than 1400; chapels about 4,500; Santo Tomas University about
3,000 students; colleges and higher schools 103; primary and intermediate
schools 600; pupils attending Catholic schools (recognized and unrecognized by the Government) over 100,000; hospitals and orphanages 26; seminaries 15; students attending seminaries 950.
IGLESIA CATOLICA APOSTOLICA FILIPINA (Aglipayanos)Bishops 9; priests 200; parishes 200; primary schools 200 (with about
6,000 pupils); seminaries 3; number of members estimated at about
2,000,000.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION-Membership 79,000; church
buildings 293; parsonages 116; value of church buildings P962,000; pastors
89, probationers 23, local preachers 119; deaconesses 101; Bible women 50;
women missionaries (Woman's Foreign Missionary Society) 14; missionary
families (Board of Foreign Missions) 5.
UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH-( Presbyterians, Congregationalists, United Brethren) -Membership 41,000; churches 302; other groups
268; Filipino pastors 101; other evangelistic workers 130; Sunday schools
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