The cathedral's Team Ministry include Rev. Fr. Perpetuo B. Cooncepcion as the Team Ministry Moderator; Rev. Fr. Jaime G. Andres, Jr. and Rev. Fr. Bret Jan Michael P. Boadilla as Parochial Vicars; and, Rev. Fr. Arturo A. Valmonte as Attached Priest [1][2]
With the founding of San Fernando as a town in 1587, the mission of San Guillermo de Duladulang in 1590 was also decreed. In the barrio of San Vicente, Francisco Romero (OSA) and Santiago Olarte (OSA) initiated the building of a chapel (visita) in 1764. The friars moved the visita to Tanque and then to Kabaroan due to Mindanao's Moros and Visayan pintados raids.
In 1768, Juan Sorolla (OSA), Simon Guillermo (OSA), and Pedro Fernando (OSA) relocated the Church to its present site in the City of San Fernando. Later in 1817, Simon Torrado (OSA) erected another church and a convent.
St. William the Hermit Church was originally situated at Pindangan, now known as Barrio San Vicente. In 1759, Augustinian friar Jose Torres convinced the two settlements to fuse into Pindangan (dry fish). He and the natives built a church under the patronage of William the Hermit. In 1765, under its parish priest, Fernando Rey, Pindangan was renamed San Fernando after the Catholic King of Spain.
It was in May 1786 that the Ministerio de San Fernando was created. But due to the shortage of priests during the period of 1792 to 1831, San Fernando became a visita of Bauang and San Juan, La Union. In 1831, Juan Sorolla, the parish priest of Bauang in 1829, was assigned in San Fernando. It was only in 1817 when Simon Torrado and Sorolla, its first parish priest, constructed the church.
The church was damaged by earthquakes in 1860 and 1892 (List of earthquakes in the Philippines). In 1873, Luis Perez (OSA) destroyed the abandoned walls due to the 1860 earthquake. Jose Rodriguez Cabezas (OSA) renovated the convent and the church after the 1892 earthquake damages and added the bell tower. Katipuneros under Col. Blas Villamor and his Katipuneros sequestered the Church in 1898.
It was attacked by rebels in 1898 and the Japanese destroyed it on February 25, 1945. Rebuilt in 1873, it was again reconstructed from 1947 to 1949 under Bishop Santiago C. Sancho.[citation needed] (May 23, 1880 – October 23, 1966). He was the Bishop of Nueva Segovia, Philippines and was appointed Archbishop of Nueva Segovia on June 29, 1951.
The humble chapel, and later church, was ecclesiastically proclaimed a Cathedral in April 1970 during the canonical erection of the diocese of San Fernando and the appointment on February 6, 1970, of its first bishop, Victorino Cristobal Ligot (March 10, 1924 – September 18, 1980).[3]
La Union Bishop Artemio Rillera was laid to rest behind the altar of Saint William the Hermit Cathedral on November 22, 2011, with a con-celebrated mass officiated by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas.[4] Rillera was a missionary from the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) who died at age 69 due to severe asthma attack after saying Holy Mass at the Seminary of the Sacred Heart in San Fernando City, La Union on November 13, 2011.[5]
Since the death of Bishop Artemio Lomboy Rillera in November 2011, the diocese had been vacant until the appointment of Bishop Rodolfo Fontiveros on October 30, 2012, as bishop of San Fernando de La Union, Philippines. Bishop Beltran had been serving as Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe.[6] Beltran was born on November 13, 1948, at Gattaran-Cagayan. On March 25, 1976, he was ordained Priest Priest of Tuguegarao, Philippines, and on March 18, 2006, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe, Titular Bishop of Buffada.[7] The Cathedral's Bishop’s Residence is located at San Vicente, City of San Fernando, La Union.[3][8]
The annual fiesta celebration of the City of San Fernando La Union, the Feast of St. William the Hermit, is held every January 22 with the Agri-Trade fair (by the City Agriculture Office which promotes various agricultural products of the 59 barangays of San Fernando City, divided into 12 Districts with the 12 Councilors as collaborators). The activities lead to the feast celebration, which is observed every February 10.[9][10]
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