Location: Balanga, Bataan
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House of Worship
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Date of marker unveiling: 1940
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
CHURCH OF BALANGA
THE SPIRITUAL MINISTRATION OF BALANGA FORMERLY BELONGED TO ABUCAY. BALANGA BECAME AN INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY CENTER IN 1739. REV. BENITO RIVAS, O.P., STRENGTHENED THIS CHURCH BY FORTIFYING ITS WALL. REV. JUAN ANTONIO VICENTE, O.P., ROOFED IT WITH GALVANIZED IRON AND DECORATED THE INTERIOR. REV. FERNALDO MA. MIÑANO, O.P., FROM 1838–45 CONSTRUCTED THE ARCH OF THE CHOIR LOFT AND MADE THE BAPTISMAL FONT OUT OF GRANITE FROM MARIVELES. THE PAROCHIAL MINISTRATION UNDER THE FILIPINO CLERGY STARTED WITH REV. MARIANO SARILI, JUNE 2, 1898.
