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Mass Schedules |
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Monday - Saturday |
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5:30 AM |
5:30 PM |
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6:15 AM |
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Sunday |
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4:30 AM |
10:00 AM |
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6:30 AM |
5:00 PM |
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8:00 AM |
6:30 PM |
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History
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| 1901 - 1950 |
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| 1925 |
Although the diocesan seminary was at Calbayog, there was a small preparatory seminary at the
convent in Palo in 1925. Father Consorcio Poblete, then an assistant parish priest in Palo,
was appointed Rector. Father (later Monsignor) Antonio Mate is said to be the product of that seminary.
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| 1926 |
Leyte Central Academy, the parochial school of Palo was founded, thanks to the efforts of Bishop Sofronio
Hacbang, Bishop of Calbayog, to which the whole island of Leyte still belonged, and Mr. Alfredo Palencia,
Sr. Father Juan Pacoli, the parish of priest of Palo, was designated as the school head. Other members of
the school corporation were Juan Palencia, Municipal Treasurer, Pedro D. Sevilla, Marcial Acebedo, Ricardo
Mendiola, Municipal President and Rev. Fr. Ignacio Mora.
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| March 25, 1938 |
Bishop Manuel Mascariñas, a priest from Antequera, Bohol, and appointed Bishop of Palo December 16, 1937, was
installed as the first Bishop of Palo. The mass of installation was graced by the presence of some higher
dignitaries among the Philippine Hierarchy: Archbishop Gabriel Reyes of Manila, Bishop James Thomas Gibbons
Hayes, SJ, of Cagayan de Oro, Bishop Santiago Sancho of Vigan, Bishop Miguel Acebedo of Calbayog and Bishop Luis
del Rosario, SJ, of Zamboanga. Bishop Mascariñas’s residence was behind the church and would be his and his
successor’s home until the latter moved his quarters to a place atop a hill in Brgy. Arado north of Palo.
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| 1941 - 1944 |
These were war-torn years. The cathedral was converted into an evacuation hospital for wounded American and Filipino
soldiers as well as a place of refuge for civilians.
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| March 17, 1945 |
The first post-war sacerdotal ordination in the Diocese of Palo was held at the Palo Cathedral on this date.
The ordinands were Father Cipriano Urgel of Hindang, Leyte and Father Enrique Ubaldo of Dagami, Leyte. Ordaining
prelate was Bishop Manuel Mascariñas, Bishop of Palo.
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| July 1, 1946 |
The parochial, now cathedral, school, Leyte Central Academy, obtained government recognition. The first Director
was Father Marcial Dira. The pioneer volunteer teachers were: Mr. Alfredo Palencia, Dr. Alejandro Montejo, Atty.
Gregorio D. Montejo, Ms. Placida Barbosa, Mr. Custodio Saboren, Ms. Paz Montejo and Mr. Ceferino Montejo.
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| September 21, 1946 |
Father Julio Rosales, erstwhile parish priest of Sto. Niño Church, was consecrated bishop in the Palo Cathedral.
The principal consecrator was Archbishop Guglielmo Piani, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, and the co-consecrating
bishops were Bishop Manuel Mascariñas, Bishop of Palo and Bishop Miguel Acebedo, Bishop of Calbayog. It was the very
first Episcopal ordination to be celebrated in the Palo Cathedral. Bishop Rosales was the first bishop of Tagbilaran.
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| 1949 |
Bishop Manuel Mascariñas turned over the administration of the Leyte Central Academy, which from 1926 until then was
run by the clergy of the Diocese of Palo and was operating within the cathedral grounds, to the Religious of the Virgin
Mary, an all-Filipina congregation, and whose superior general was a native of Palo, Rev. Mother M. Andrea Montejo, RVM.
Five years later in 1954, the already bishop Lino Gonzaga legally turned over the school with all the facilities to the
RVM Congregation, including a two-hectare lot outside the cathedral premises through a Deed of Donation. The school would
heretofore be called, "St. Mary of Palo".
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