Holy Cross Parish – Carigara

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HOLY CROSS PARISH
Brgy. Ponong, 6529 Carigara, Leyte, Philippines
Contact:
+63 908 763 8335
+63 977 110 7185

District
Eastern District

Vicariate
Carigara Vicariate

Feastday
July 16

Year Founded
1595

PRIESTS CURRENTLY ASSIGNED

Parish Priest
Cahido, Rev. Roel E.

Parochial Vicar
Adona, Rev. Mark Marowen A.

MAIN CHURCH MASS SCHEDULE

SUNDAYS
4:30 am / 6:30 am / 8:30 am / 4:30 pm 6:30 pm
MONDAY – FRIDAY
5:00 am / 6:00 am
SATURDAY
5:00 am / 6:00 am / 5:30 pm

OTHER SACRAMENTS

BAPTISM
8:00 am every Saturday
WEDDING
6:00 am every Second Saturday (common)
SPECIAL SCHEDULE BAPTISM
by Appointment
SPECIAL SCHEDULE WEDDING
by Appointment
SICK CALL
by Appointment
HOUSE BLESSING
by Appointment
WAKE MASSES
by Appointment

HISTORY (read...)

The town of Carigara, according to some historians, was once called Tandaya. The historian Jaime de Veyra avers that Carigara is the Tandaya or Candaya mentioned in Loarca’s “Accounts of the Encomiendas”; that the name may have been originally Kan-Daya, Kan-Dara, and finally Kalgara from which the Spaniards derived Carigara.

Kalgaran-ons have their own version of the origin of their town and its name. The town got its name from the original settler, the founder of the town, a certaln DatuGara, Who was one of the unnamed companions of the legendary 10 datus led by DatuPuti who fled the tyranny of a sultan in Borneo and setted in Panay. DatuGara separated from the group and landed in the shores of what is now Carigara Bay sometime in 1379. With him was his household of 77 members – men, women and children. Led by a scouting boat called harugohay, they came in three long boats (barugos) escorted by seven smaller boats (barutos). He and his party entered the mouth of the river and followed it upstream for about a kilometer until they reached glade where they disembarked, cleared the glade for more space and established a village.

The new settlers didn’t bother to give their new village a name. Months later, when traders from Bohol chanced upon the village, they found an organized settlement under a chieftain named Gara. Thereupon, they referred to the place as Kangara (belonging to Gara). The name stuck, evolvec to Kalgara and finally to Carigara.

The Church of Carigara, the eldest and probably one of the biggest in Leyte island, was founded by the Jesuit missionaries. Withthe arrival of the Jesuit historian Pedro de Chirino on July 16, 1595, the first Christian Parish of Leyte was established.

Through a royal decree issued by Charles Il, King of the Spain, the Jesuit were expelled from Spain and its colonies. After 173 years, the Jesuits bowed out of their spiriual empire in the Visayas and Mindana. The Augustinians took over the administration of the Carigara mission coming in full circle in an effort to introduce the tenets of Christianity to the natives. They left eight or nine years later but came back after 188 years to a town which had prospered and to a church made up of rubblework. The Augustinians stayed for 75 years during which time the town was moved to the present site, but the church remained at the Barangay Canal.

After the Augustinians, the Franciscans took over in 1843. The church and the Casa Real in Canal continued to be used, but the elements and the ravages of the time were taking its toll. Extensive repair had to be made since most of the people had moved to the new town site, then Bishop Romualdo Jimeno ordered the Parish Priest, Fr. Hilarion Corvera, to build a new church at the new town site instead of repairing the old church.

Construction of the new church began in 1859 under the direction of Maestro Remegio Tecson. The Altar was consecrated in 1866 during the visitation of Bishop Jimeno but the church was completed only in 1879 during the curacy of Fr. Bernardino de Rebolledo, who was the last Franciscan priest of Carigara. It was also during his term when the convent was finally completed. The old convent which was located on the west side of the church was later given in 1945 to Holy Cross Academy school building.

In 1896, the revolution against Spain Flared up, the Franciscan left Carigara and the seculars took over the Carigara Parish. The first secular Parish Priest of Carigara was Fr. lgnacio Mora who was assumed office on October 12, 1898.

Through the years, several more constructions were made, continuing repair & reconstruction of the major parts of the church were done. The Parish kept moving on with more improvements of its physical facilities & structures.

Reference:

  • CARIGARA, Six Hundred Years of History in a Town in Leyte, by Carigara 400, Inc.)

PRIESTS FORMERLY ASSIGNED

1808 – 1809  Rev. Fr. Jose Ambrosio
1809 – 1814  Rev. Fr. Manuel Paulino
1814 – 1819  Rev. Fr. Pedro Martin
1819 – 1821  Rev. Fr. Juan de Buenaventura
1821 – 1825  Rev. Fr. Pedro Martin
1825 – 1825  Rev. Fr. Claudio Silverio
1825 – 1840  Rev. Fr. Bibiano Vizente
1833 – 1841  Rev. Fr. Alexandro Leonardo
1841 – 1842  Rev. Fr. Ildefondo Lasala
1841 – 1842  Rev. Fr. Alexandro Leonardo
1842 – 1861  Rev. Fr. Jose Hilarion Corvera
1844 – 1844  Rev. Fr. Nicolas Bari Miguel
1844 – 1844  Rev. Fr. Florentino Dalmacio
1844 – 1848  Rev. Fr. Alexandro Thomas Joaquin
1844 – 1845  Rev. Fr. Juan Facundo Quimbo
1845 – 1846  Rev. Fr. Alexandro Thomas Joaquin
1848 – 1849  Rev. Fr. Palermo
1849 – 1851  Rev. Fr. Nicolas Bari Miguel
1853 – 1853  Rev. Fr. Julian Bersosa
1853 – 1856  Rev. Fr. Antonio Sabarre
1856 – 1858  Rev. Fr. Julian Bersosa
1859 – 1860  Rev. Fr. Agustin Dincong
1861 – 1861  Rev. Fr. Julian Bersosa
1861 – 1861  Rev. Fr. Antonio Figueroa
1861 – 1863  Rev. Fr. Martin de Yepes
1863 – 1867  Rev. Fr. Domingo de Madrid
1863 – 1863  Rev. Fr. Prospero Zalasa
1863 – 1865  Rev. Fr. Estebas de Diego
1866 – 1867  Rev. Fr. Tiburcio Ledesma
1867 – 1867  Rev. Fr. Salustriano Bus
1867 – 1867  Rev. Fr. Tiburcio Ledesma
1867 – 1898  Rev. Fr. Bernardino Rebolledo
1868 – 1868  Rev. Fr. Vicente Lopez
1871 – 1876  Rev. Fr. Pedro Peñaranda
1872 – 1873  Rev. Fr. Fernando Esteban
1874 – 1874  Rev. Fr. Eustaquio de San Jose
1876 – 1883  Rev. Fr. Enrique Carillo
1878 – 1878  Rev. Fr. Damien Peña
1883 – 1884  Rev. Fr. Eduardo Alarcon
1884 – 1892  Rev. Fr. Andres Amles
1884 – 1887  Rev. Fr. German Diez
1891 – 1893  Rev. Fr. Eulco Machuca
1891 – 1891  Rev. Fr. Victor de los Reyes
1891 – 1892  Rev. Fr. Quintin Bautista
1892 – 1894  Rev. Fr. Isidro Calonge
1893 – 1898  Rev. Fr. Ignacio Mora
1894 – 1896  Rev. Fr. Ulpiano Tendero
1896 – 1908  Rev. Fr. Andres Congzon
1906 – 1908  Rev. Fr. Arsenio Cabras
1908 – 1922  Rev. Fr. Doroteo Ayaso
1908 – 1909  Rev. Fr. Arsenio Cabras
1909 – 1910  Rev. Fr. Wenceslao Singzon
1912 – 1915  Rev. Fr. Emeterio Javines
1915 – 1918  Rev. Fr. Secundino Latorre
1916 – 1917  Rev. Fr. Pedro Aruta
1918 – 1920  Rev. Fr. Trinidad Ponferada
1920 – 1922  Rev. Fr. Doroteo Peñaranda
1921 – 1921  Rev. Fr. Nadres Mariano
1922 – 1951  Rev. FR. Alberto Almarines
1922 – 1922  Rev. FR. Magdaleno Agnes
1922 – 1925  Rev. Fr. Pascual Quimbo
1924 – 1925  Rev. Fr. Sixto Montero
1925 – 1928  Rev. Fr. Vito Briones
1922 – 1926  Rev. Fr. Doroteo Peñaranda
1923 – 1923  Rev. Fr. Federico Villasin
1927 – 1928  Rev. Fr. Restituto Alde
1928 – 1930  Rev. Fr. Pelagio Aviles
1930 – 1930  Rev. Fr. Pablo Lola
1930 – 1931  Rev. Fr. Consortio Poblete
1931 – 1933  Rev. Fr. Hilario Abarca
1932 – 1937  Rev. Fr. Gorgonio Tupa
1935 – 1942  Rev. Fr. Alejandro Alve
1937 – 1938  Rev. Fr. Apolonio Ponferada
1940 – 1943  Rev. Fr. Dominador Sudario
1944 – 1946  Rev. Fr. Magdaleno Agnis
1945 – 1945  Rev. Fr. Antonio Mate
1945 – 1950  Rev. Fr. Francisco Santiago
1950 – 1951  Rev. Fr. Gregorio Regis
1951 – 1951  Rev. Fr. Generoso Alasagas
1951 – 1954  Rev. Fr. Francisco Santiago
1952 – 1954  Rev. Fr Generoso Alasagas
1954 – 1957  Rev. Fr. Antonio Mate
1956 – 1959  Rev. Fr. Aluino Estalilia
1957 – 1960  Rev. Fr. Julian Aniban
1959 – 1960  Rev. Fr. Antonio Sudario
1960 – 1960  Rev. Fr. Climaco Faelnar
1960 – 1970  Rev. Fr. Esteban Justimbaste
1960 – 1962  Rev. Fr. Salvador Modesto
1962 – 1963  Rev. Fr. Leoncio Almendra
1963 – 1966  Rev. Fr. anuario Puray
1966 – 1970  Rev. Fr. Romeo Mazo
1970 – 1973  Rev. Fr. Cornelio Zabala
1973 – 1976  Rev. Msgr. Esteban Justimbaste
1976 – 1977  Rev. Msgr. Zenon Ocampo
1977 – 1984  Rev. Msgr. Estanislao Abarca
1984 – 1989  Rev. Fr. Antonio Sudario
1989 – 1990  Rev. Msgr. Adan Apostol
1990 – 1997  Rev. Fr. Rolando Cuayzon
1998 – 2001  Rev. Fr. Abrahan Palaña
2001 – 2004  Rev. Fr. Ricardo Mendoza
2004 – 2006  Rev. Fr. Gil Logramonte
2006 – 2010  Rev. Msgr. Wilfredo Alejan, HP
2010 – 2015  Rev. Msgr. Manuel Damayo, PC
2015 – present  Rev. Fr. Roel Cahido

Parochial Vicars:

1963 – 1964  Rev. Fr. Osserman Caceres
1964 – 1966  Rev. Fr. Oscar Florencio
1966 – 1967  Rev. Fr. Leonardo Medroso
1967 – 1967  Rev. Fr. Carlos Maceda
1968 – 1969  Rev. Fr. Francisco Vicentillo
1969 – 1971  Rev. Fr. Hermenigildo Adolfo
1971 – 1972  Rev. Fr. Teodulo Gaquit
1972 – 1974  Rev. Fr. Vicente Dolina, Jr.
1974 – 1975  Rev. Fr. Leovigildo Roca
1975 – 1976  Rev. Fr. Domingo Matiga
1975 – 1976  Rev. Fr. Remegio Uribe
1976 – 1978  Rev. Fr. Jose Alfaro
1976 – 1976  Rev. Fr. Vito Briones
1978 – 1979  Rev. Fr. Cesar Petilla
1980 – 1980  Rev. Fr. Moises Apostol
1979 – 1982  Rev. Fr. Ricardo Mendoza
1982 – 1984  Rev. Fr. Generoso Sevilla
1983 – 1984  Rev. Fr. Albert Opiniano
1985 – 1985  Rev. Fr. Ruben Caceres
1985 – 1986  Rev. Fr. Gerardo Bandalan
1986 – 1987  Rev. Fr. Joselito Conejos
1987 – Rev. Fr. Elegio Mativo
1989 – 1990  Rev. Fr. Dennis Winston Margate
1990 – 1990  Rev. Fr. Ambrosio Avelino, Jr.
1990 – 1990  Rev. Fr. Eduardo Rivera
1990 – 1991  Rev. Fr. David Vivero, Jr.
1991 – 1992  Rev. Fr. Jose Rory Caones
1992 – 1993  Rev. Fr. Manuel Abrenio
1993 – 1993  Rev. Fr. Almer Pasagui
1993 – 1994  Rev. Fr. Jose Protacio Catan
1994 – 1996  Rev. Fr. Ariel Sanico
1994 – 1995  Rev. Fr. Loreno Robles
1996 – 1997  Rev. Fr. Dennis Winston Margate
1995 – 1997  Rev. Fr. Romeo Jake Callosa
1997 – 1997  Rev. Fr. Eduardo Obero
1997 – 1998  Rev. Fr. Vicente Purgatorio
1997 – 1997  Rev. Fr. Armando Dagsa
1998 – 1998  Rev. Fr. Ronnie Sotico Mora
1998 – 1998  Rev. Fr. James Jubal Meneses
1998 – 2001  Rev. Fr. Dennis Winston Margate
2001 – 2001  Rev. Fr. Romeo Gomez
2001 – 2003  Rev. Fr. Den Michael Canaleja
2003 – 2003  Rev. Fr. Cipriano Rey Caraballa
2004 – 2004  Rev. Fr. Herculano Tabada
2004 – 2005  Rev. Fr. Norman Jose Manawatao
2005 – 2006  Rev. Fr. Edwin Caintoy
2006 – 2007  Rev. Fr. Kelvin Joy Apurillo
2007 – 2008  Rev. Fr. Dennis Inocando
2008 – 2008  Rev. Fr. Iluminado Endriano
2008 – 2009  Rev. Fr. James Jubal Meneses
2009 – 2010  Rev. Fr. Jose Virgilio Camulte
2010 – 2010  Rev. Fr. Marlon Cua
2010 – 2014  Rev. Fr. Ivan Petilos
2014 – 2015  Rev. Fr. Anreco Estrella
2015 – 2018  Rev. Fr. Edgar Mallen
2018 – present  Rev. Fr. Mark Marowen Adona

CHAPELS
  1. Barayong (Sto. Niño)
  2. Baybay District (Sta. Cruz – Invencion)
  3. Tangnan (San Isidro)
  4. Lower Hiraan (San Roque)
  5. Bislig (San Isidro)
  6. San Isidro (San Isidro)
  7. Uyawan (San Isidro)
  8. Libo (San Roque)
  9. Manloy (San Roque)
  10. Cutay (San Isidro)
  11. Upper Hiraan (Sto. Niño)
  12. Tigabo (San Isidro)
  13. West Visoria (San Jose)
  14. San Juan (San Juan)
  15. Canal (San Pedro ug San Pablo)
  16. Upper Sogod (San Benito)
  17. Town Proper (Triumph of the Cross)
  18. Canlampay (Sta. Cruz)
  19. Nauguisan (San Roque)
  20. Candigahub (San Roque)
  21. Hiluctugan (San Roque)
  22. Sawang (San Roque)
  23. Sitio Utap (San Roque)
  24. East Visoria (San Roque)
  25. Camansi (San Roque)
  26. Lower Sogod (San Agustin)
  27. Ponong (Sta. Cruz – Exaltacion)
  28. Barugohay Sur (San Miguel Archangel)
  29. Caghalo (San Francisco de Asis)
  30. Tinaguban (Virgen han Rosario)

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