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Archdiocese of Cebu Commission on Youth

Archdiocese of Cebu Commission on Youth

URL: http://www.coycebu.org/


The youth ministry and program in the Archdiocese of Cebu began in 1978. His Eminence Julio Cardinal Rosales, then Archbishop of Cebu, appointed Rev. Fr. (now Msgr.) Roberto “Boy” Alesna as the Chairperson of the Youth Welfare Services (YWS) under Cebu Caritas Incorporated. YWS initiated a youth convention on September 24, 1978. The convention was able to identify programs that the YWS were to... 
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Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño

Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño

URL: http://www.basilicadelsantoninodecebu.org.ph


The convent of the Sto. Niño de Cebu was founded by Fr. Andres de Urdaneta on April 28, 1565 , the very day the Legazpi-Urdaneta expedition arrived in the island. On May 8 of the same year, when Legaspi and his men planned the urbanization of the city, they allotted a “place for the church and the convent of San Agustin, “where the Santo Niño image had been found.” In 1599, the convent was... 

Archdiocese of Cebu

Archdiocese of Cebu

URL: http://www.cebuarchdiocese.org


The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cebu is one of the ecclesiastical provinces of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines that is composed of the entire civil province of Cebu (Cebu and the nearby islands of Mactan, Bantayan, and Camotes). The dioceses of Tagbilaran and Talibon in Bohol, the diocese of Dumaguete in Negros Oriental, and the diocese of Maasin in Southern Leyte are its suffragans. The... 
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