Date Updated: 7 JUN 2021
HOLY FAMILY PARISH
Osmeña St., Poblacion, 6531 Kananga, Leyte, Philippines
Contact:
+63 053 5539214
+63 950 419 7273
| District: EASTERN |
| Vicariate: ORMOC |
| Feastday: JUNE 16 |
| Year Founded: June 9, 1959 |
Priests Currently Assigned
Moderator
Villamil, Rev. Hector R.
Co-Pastor
Ebacitas, Rev. Felix J.
Main Church Mass Schedule
SUNDAY
5:00 am / 7:00 am / 6: 30 pm
MONDAY – SATURDAY
5:30 am / 5:30 pm (Wednesday and Friday)
1st MONDAY OF THE MONTH
6:00 pm (Healing Mass – Charismatic Group)
1st FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
8:00 pm (Alliance of the Two Hearts Devotion)
History
Kananga was formerly one of the many barrios of the parish of Valencia, Ormoc, City. Valencia was then the biggest district of Ormoc but it was already a thriving parish independent from the mother parish of Ormoc. In 1950, Kananga was created as an independent municipality under the aegis of then Congressman Dominggo Veloso of Baybay. During the incumbency of the late Mayor Feliciano Larrazabal, a popular petition was sent to Bishop Lino Gonzaga to have Kananga created as an independent parish. In response to their petitions Kananga was declared as mission territory under the ministry of a visiting priest from Samar as a missionary pastor in the person of Rev. Fr. Trifon Garduce, followed by Rev. Fr. Vicente Cordero. Ultimately, Kananga was officially declared as a parish of the Holy Family on June 9, 1959 with Rev. Fr. Manuel Colasito as its Parish Priest.
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After 60 years of existence as a Parish, the love, faith, and devotion among the Lay faithful Catholics of the community had amassed a very wide and extensive spiritual growth in the community. The devotion to the Holy Family is religiously desired among every individual household member by nurturing their lives in the spirit of deep faith and love reflected in proper parental guidance and care, producing a responsible future generation worthy to be called as missionary disciples of Christ. The vibrancy of faith, love, and charity among the Basic Ecclesial Community (BEC) members of the parish has brought forth a mission station at the very heart of the Holy Family Parish which is present now the St. John the Baptizer of Brgy. Tugbong, Kananga, Leyte.
Our Lady Queen of Peace a hermit Nun Congregation has also settled their way of life in solitude and prayer at Brgy. Natubgan, Kananga, Leyte. With the proper guidance of all those who served in the person of Christ in our Parish. The Parish Pastoral Council and Parish Finance Council were firmly established to cope with the demand of a shared pastoral ministry and temporal goods preservation and development. Just recently during the incumbency of Rev. Fr. Albert T. Opiniano as Parish Priest with the Parochial Vicar Rev. Fr. Ramon A. Fian, Jr. comes the birth of the New Angelicum School Inc. a place for learning and venue of sustainable evangelization especially to the future generations of the parish.
Priests Formerly Assigned
1952 Rev. Fr. Trifon Garduce, Rev. Fr. Vicente Cordero
1959 – 1959 Rev. Manuel Colasito
1959 – 1960 Rev. Fr. Estanislao Abarca
1960 – 1963 Rev. Fr. Adan Apostol
1963 – 1974 Rev. Fr. Rufino Peñas, Rev. Fr. Oscar Lorenzo
1974 – 1981 Rev. Fr. Alejandro Parilla
1981 – 1988 Rev. Fr. Aresio Astorga
1988 – 1990 Rev. Fr. Romeo Mazo
1990 – 1993 Rev. Fr. Joel Pabilona, Jr.
1993 – 1998 Rev. Fr. Generoso Sevilla
1993 Rev. Fr. Andres Villarente (Chaplain O.L.P Hermitage)
1998 – 1999 Rev. Fr. Joselito Conejos (Team Ministry)
1998 – 1999 Rev. Fr. Michael Arevalo (Team Ministry)
1999 – 2004 Rev. Fr. Antonio Adre
2004 – 2007 Rev. Fr. Juan B. Paylado
2007 – 2014 Rev. Fr. Gil Logramonte
2014 – 2021 Rev. Fr. Albert T. Opiniano
Chapels
- Brgy. Sto. Domingo (Sto. Domingo)
- Brgy. Lonoy (San Isidro Labrador)
- Brgy. Mahawan (San Isidro Labrador)
- Brgy. Natubgan (San Isidro Labrador)
- Brgy. Poblacion (Sagrada Pamilya)
- Brgy. Rizal (Sta. Felomina)
- Brgy. Hiloctogan (Birhen sa Fatima)
- Brgy. Lim-ao (San Isidro Labrador)
- Brgy. Aguiting (San Isidro Labrador)
- Brgy. San Ignacio (Sr. Santo Niño)
- Brgy. Montebello (San Jose)
- Brgy. Naghalin (Birhen sa Regla)
- Brgy. Libongao (Sto. Thomas de Villanueva)
- Brgy. Tagaytay (Immaculate Conception)
- Brgy. Libertad (San Isidro)