Location:Vigan, Ilocos Sur
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: Convent
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1949
Installed by: Philippine Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
SITE OF THE DIOCESE OF NUEVA SEGOVIA
FOUNDED IN LAL-LO, CAGAYAN, 14 AUGUST 1595, WITH FR. MIGUEL DE BENAVIDES AS FIRST BISHOP, BY THE BULL OF POPE CLEMENT VIII, THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF BISHOP DOMINGO DE SALAZAR IN MADRID. TRANSFERRED TO VIGAN, 1758, OCCUPYING A BUILDING WHICH ESCAPED CAPTURE BY THE REBELS WHEN DIEGO SILANG, WHO DEFEATED THE BISHOP’S FORCES, WAS ASSASSINATED BY VICOS, 1763. PRESENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTED, 1783–1790, REPAIRED, 1824–1826, ALSO HOUSED THE ECCLESTIASTICAL COURT UNTIL 1890. OCCUPIED BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS WHO IMPRISONED BISHOP JOSE HEVIA CAMPOMANES, 1896. USED AS GARRISON BY THE AMERICAN FORCES UNDER LT. COL. JAMES PARKER, 1899.
