Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental

Jack Maico
May 30
3 min read

"Dumaguete" was coined from the Cebuano word dagit, which means "to snatch". The word dumaguet, meaning "to swoop", was coined because of the area's frequent raids by Moro pirates and its power to attract and keep visitors, both local and foreign.

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Church in town: 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral Parish, commonly known as Dumaguete Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines. The cathedral is the seat of the Diocese of Dumaguete and is considered the island's oldest stone church, having been completed in 1776.

When the parish of Dumaguete (then a pueblo) was founded in 1620, its jurisdiction covered Negros's southeastern part and the island of Siquijor. Eight secular priests initially served in the parish until 1645, with the first being Fr. Juan de Roa y Herrera. When Fr. Jose Fernandez de Septien served as the Dumaguete's parish priest, the stone church was constructed from 1754 to 1776. Also, it was under Fr. Septien's leadership when the four watchtowers at each corner of the church's lot were constructed, which primarily aimed to drive away the Moros ransacking the community from the south.

After Fr. Septien's tenure as a parish priest in 1776, 18 more had served in Dumaguete until the arrival of the first Recollect friar to serve in the town in 1855. Between the said years, additional constructions include the church's transept and the annex that connected the church itself to the old convent. A firecracker-caused blaze during the November 25 town fiesta of 1846 charred the entire church's wooden ceiling, altars, some of the pews, religious articles, and the church organ. The fire spared the connected convent after the people hurried to put the fire out immediately. Fr. Antonio Moreno added sacred vestments and articles when he was the parish priest from 1859 to 1866. It was also during Fr. Moreno's time when the church was furnished with galvanized roofing in consonance with the construction of the local children's school made with stone. The full renovation of the church's flooring with fine wood and the addition of a bell tower on one of the watchtowers came under the helm of Fr. Juan Felix de Encarnacion from 1867 to 1879. In 1885, when Fr. Mariano Bernad served as the parish priest, the portico was finished; the following year, two side altars were dedicated to the Virgen de Consolacion and Saint Joseph. The whole church interior was also fully painted and adorned with embellishments, and an organ from Zaragoza was acquired in 1891.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumaguete_Cathedral

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Dumaguete City was once settled by datus from Borneo who exiled themselves into the newly established Kedatuan of Madja-as. They participated in a successful war against Chola-occupied Odtojonan in Borneo (The former homeland) as a constituent kingdom of Madja-as (the re-established nation).

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