SOME IMPORTANT DATES IN PHILIPPINE METHODISM

1898 (Aug. 28) Chaplain George Stull holds first Protestant service in the Philippines

1899 (March) Bishop James M. Thoburn begins services in Manila

1900 (Feb.) Dr. Annie Norton, Miss Julia Wisner and Miss Margaret Cody arrive as first Methodist missionaries to the Philippines
(March) Nicolas Zamora is ordained by Bishop Thoburn as the first Filipino Protestant minister
(August) Philippine Islands District of the Malaysia Conference is created

1901 (April 26) Evangelical Union is founded Thoburn Press begins

1903 Harris Memorial School is founded

1906 Dispensaria Betania is founded (later to become Mary Johnston Hospital)

1907 Union Theological Seminary is founded by Methodists and Presbyterians

1908 Philippine Islands Annual Conference is created

1909 (Feb. 28) IEMELI F is founded by Nicolas Zamora at St. Paul's Methodist Church in Tondo, Manila

1914 Bishop Wm. Eveland becomes first resident bishop for Philippine Methodism

1915 Catalino Santos (Bataan District) and Lorenzo Tamayo (Paniqui District) become first Filipino District Superintendents

1919 Self-support reached on the local church level
Five Filipino Methodists sent to teach in mission school in Malaya

1924 Dionisio D. Alejandro is elected as first Filipino delegate to Genera! Conference

1932 All districts placed under Filipino superintendency

1933 The Philippine Methodist Church is found, 1935 Philippine Islands Annual Conference becomes the Philippines Annual Conference and the Northern Philippines Annual Conference

1940 First session of the Philippines Central Conference is held

1942 (Oct. 16) Francisco S. Galvez becomes Acting Head Philippine Methodism

1944 D. D. Alejandro is elected as first Filipino bishop

1946 Philippine Wesleyan College is founded

1947 Philippine Christian Colleges is incorporated

1948 Jose L. Valencia is elected bishop

1949 Northwest Philippines Annual Conference is created

1950 Methodist Social Center is founded

1951 Prudencia Fabro becomes first Filipina director of Harris Memorial School

1952 Benjamin I. Guansing becomes first Filipino President of Union Theological Seminary
Methodist work officially begins in Mind.

1954 Children's Garden in Rizal and Methodist Rural Center in Cotabato are found

1955 Mindanao Provisional Annual Conference is created

1960 Methodist work divided into two Episcopal areas
Jose L. Valencia and D. D. Alejandro elected to head the Manila and Baguio areas

1961 First session of the Middle Philippines Annual Conference

1963 National Council of Churches in the Philippines is organized

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