Domingo de Salazar was 69 when he set foot in Manila in September 1581, to take possession of the See of Manila as its first bishop. Of the 20 companions he sailed with from Spain, 12 died before ...

Today, February 14, 1583, is the death of Governor-General Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñalosa, third Governor-General of the Philippines. In the lurid annals of Latin America, Father Bartolome ...

In 1994, a summary translation was published by the archives. An illustrated page from this manuscript states that Domingo de Salazar was “Primer Obispo y Arzobispo de Manila” (first bishop and ...

Five of them stayed in the convent of Santo Domingo in Manila, while four left for Bataan and six for Pangasinan. July 10, 2022. ... Father Domingo de Salazar, was also a Dominican.

Jesuit priests Antonio Sedeño and Alonso Sanchez, and Brother Nicolas Gallardo, who arrived in the same ship as Domingo de Salazar, the first bishop of Manila, settled temporarily in Lagyo ...

Four hundred years agο this year, Bishop Domingo de Salazar arrived in Manila. He had been sent by Pope Gregory XIII to be the first Bishop of this newly created Diocese, ...