Chapter LVI_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Bishopric of Nueva Segovia

663. The bishopric of Nueva Segovia is one of the suffragans of

this archbishopric of Manila, and it was erected at the same time as

the others and in the same circumstances. Its see is located in the

village of Lalo. There lives the alcalde-mayor, while the village

has an infantry presidio, and a convent of Dominican religious. It

has its own provisor, cura, and sacristan for that holy church.

Jurisdiction of that bishopric

664. That bishopric which is called Cagayan includes under its

jurisdiction the provinces of Pangasinan, from the point of Bolinao;

Ylocos; and Cagayan, to and inclusive of Palanan on the opposite coast.

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