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Jaro Cathedral

Roman Catholic church in Iloilo City, Philippines

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral, also known as the National Shrine of the Our Lady of Candles, Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, and colloquially as Jaro Cathedral, is a cathedral and national shrine located in the district of Jaro in Iloilo City, on the island of Panay in the Philippines. The seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jaro, it was placed under the patronage of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. It was established in 1575 as a visita (chapel-of-ease) of Oton by the Augustinians and as a separate parish in 1587. The present-day structure of Jaro Cathedral was built in 1874.

Editorial summary

“Jaro Cathedral” enters the record as roman Catholic church in Iloilo City, Philippines. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jaro, Cathedral and Roman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1575, 1587, 1874—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jaro, Cathedral and Roman.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jaro Cathedral” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jaro, Cathedral and Roman provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1575, 1587 and 1874.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jaro Cathedral”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jaro Cathedral primary sources, Jaro Cathedral archive and Jaro research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jaro Cathedral”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jaro Cathedral” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.