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(DSC02444) Early Christian Settlement - In 1565, Don Miguel Lopez de Legazpi who was accompanied by famed navigator Fr. Andres de Urdaneta, an Augustinian friar, visited the Boholano chieftain Datu Pagbuaya on the invitation of Datu Sikatuna. There they found the place of Datu Pagbuaya to be a thriving settlement. In his chronicle, Fr. Urdaneta named the place Daquepitan. After Legaspi's visit, the Christianization of Mindanao was officially initiated by the Augustinian friars who arrived with him. In 1581, members of The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) came to the Philippines for the purpose of evangelization. When the country was divided among four religious orders in 1598, the Jesuits were given the Diocese of Cebu which covered the Visayas and Mindanao. Thus Dapitan came to be under the jurisdiction of the men of St. Ignatius and it was Father Pascual de Acuña S.J. who started the Jesuit mission there. In 1607, some 200 natives of Dapitan became formal converts to the Christian faith. Christian missionaries also established the faith in the neighboring settlement of "Tulwanan" (now Dipolog). In 1609, the squadron of Juan Juarez Gallinato S.J. defeated the Manguindanau Muslims in a ferocious battle near Dapitan. Also in 1609, a permanent Dapitan mission was founded and thereafter headed by a Jesuit missionary, Father Pedro Gutierrez, marking Dapitan as the Center of Evangelization in Mindanao. By the 18th century, with the Spanish Naval Fleet anchored at Dapitan Bay, much of the piracy - conducted mainly by moro bandits — was under control within the Sulu Sea. Settlement in coastal areas resumed with new settlers from Negros and Bohol eventually settling in "Isab" and "Nipaan". The largest settlement, however, was made at the mouth of the Dipolog River by the Boholanos who were not associated with Datu Pagbuaya. By February 1894, the Catholic Chapel constructed by the Jesuits was renovated for the first time, on an altar designed by Philippine national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, to which now stands the Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral. By 1896, the friars established Dipolog as a regular parish and installed Father Esteban Yepes its first administrator in 1897. (Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipolog)

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