GregorioAglipay.NatlCath.PhilippineIndependentChurch.RamonFVelasquez.Wiki.800 Published September 5, 2013 at 800 × 600 in Evening Prayer 9.5.13: Gregorio Aglipay, Founder of the Philippine Independent Church, 1940 Bust of Bishop Aglipay at the IFI National Cathedral. He was a patriot and revolutionary as well as a priest; when the Roman Church banished him, he founded an independent catholic church, which made him a national figure. (Ramon F. Velasquez)