Baclayon Church Diocese of Tagbilaran On this day of the 29th of March in the year of our Lord 1998, during the decade of nationalism and the celebration of the Philippine Centennial, on the twentieth year of the pontificate of his holiness, Pope John Paul 2, Cicar of Christ and Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, the immaculate Conception Parish Church, Baclayon, Bohol, founded in 1596 by the Jesuits, canonically established as a parish in 1717 and declared as a national historical landmark in 1994 by the Government of the republic of the Philippines, is singularly privileged to be honered bvy the presence and attendance of the President of the Philippines, his excellency Fidel V. Ramos on the occasion of the inaguration of Phase 1 and commencement of Phase 2 of the Baclayon Church restoration project celebrated in a solemn liturgical rite presided by his excellency Leopoldo S. Tumulak, DD Bishop of Tagbilaran. On the eve of the 3rd Millennium, the very Rev Fr. C...