RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Gregorio Aglipay

1860 - 1940

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Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayán (Latin: Gregorius Aglipay Cruz; Filipino: Gregorio Labayan Aglipay Cruz; pronounced uhg-LEE-pahy; May 5, 1860 – September 1, 1940) was a Filipino former Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War who became the first head and leader of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), the first-ever wholly Filipino-led independent Christian Church in the Philippines in the form of a nationalist church. Known for inciting patriotic rebellion among the Filipino clergy during the Philippine Revolution and Philippine–American War, he was also a political activist who became acquainted with writer and labor leader Isabelo de los Reyes who would then start an independent Christian Filipino Church colloquially named after Aglipay in 1902 as a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church, which was the state religion of the Philippines at the time, due to the mistreatment of the Spanish friars towards the Filipinos. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregorio Aglipay is the 3,020th most popular religious figure (down from 3,009th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Philippines (down from 76th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Filipino Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Gregorio Aglipay ranks 3,020 out of 3,187Before him are Bassano Staffieri, James Aloysius Hickey, Ludwig Schick, Lillian Disney, Cherif Mohamed Aly Aidara, and David Miscavige. After him are Hilarion, Ezra Taft Benson, Peter the Aleut, William Morgan, Maelgwn Gwynedd, and Joseph Parecattil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Gregorio Aglipay ranks 141Before him are Frederick Rolfe, Daniel Barringer, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Kate Bruce, Susanna M. Salter, and Charles Oman. After him are Leonard Wood, Laura Muntz Lyall, Juliette Gordon Low, Lillian Russell, and John W. Weeks. Among people deceased in 1940, Gregorio Aglipay ranks 194Before him are Diana Karenne, Eugenie Schwarzwald, Tomasz Stankiewicz, Rudolf Thurneysen, Frederick Merriman, and Flora Finch. After him are Lillian Wald, George Lansbury, Michael Joseph Savage, Walter Connolly, Maude Abbott, and William Lashly.

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In Philippines

Among people born in Philippines, Gregorio Aglipay ranks 81 out of 155Before him are Wenceslao Padilla (1949), Macario Sakay (1878), José Burgos (1837), Freddie Aguilar (1953), Carlos P. Romulo (1899), and Jose W. Diokno (1922). After him are Tony Settember (1926), Ricardo Vidal (1931), Jejomar Binay (1942), Nur Misuari (1939), Lav Diaz (1958), and Loren Legarda (1960).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Philippines

Among religious figures born in Philippines, Gregorio Aglipay ranks 9Before him are Oscar Cruz (1934), Jaime Sin (1928), Jose Advincula (1952), Gaudencio Rosales (1932), Orlando Quevedo (1939), and Wenceslao Padilla (1949). After him are Ricardo Vidal (1931), Jose Tomas Sanchez (1920), Rufino Santos (1908), and Julio Rosales (1906).