historical marker installed in 1937 The Immaculate Conception Parish was initially established as a mission-parish by an
Augustinian friar, Alonso de Alvarado, on January 20, 1572, in the village of Pinagbuhatan. However, frequent flooding in the original site prompted the Augustinian priests to relocate it to higher ground, where the cathedral now stands. On July 2, 1573, coinciding with the establishment of the town (now city) of Pasig, the church was consecrated to the Our Lady of the Visitation, which served as the first patroness of Pasig. The town patroness was eventually changed into the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on April 25, 1587. During the brief
British occupation of Manila in 1762 to 1764, the
church served as the British military headquarters, its
belfry used as a watchtower against the Spanish defenders. After the Augustinians, the
CICM missionaries arrived and began the administration of the parish in 1910. Three years later, the congregation founded the first parochial school for boys (present-day
Pasig Catholic College). In 1979, the diocesan clergy from the
Archdiocese of Manila took over the supervision of the parish, and Manuel Sobreviñas, then auxiliary bishop of Manila, became the first Filipino parish priest. Assisting him as parochial administrator was Andres Desmet. In 1993, Sobreviñas became the bishop of the
Diocese of Imus. Emmanuel Sunga became the new pastor, and was transferred to
Santo Niño Parish in
Tondo, Manila four years later. Manuel Gabriel came to Pasig in 1997 from the Most Holy Trinity Parish in Balic-balic,
Sampaloc, Manila, and it was during his term that the parish had electronic chromatically tuned carillon bells installed in its belfry. The Immaculate Conception Parish was declared one of the Jubilee churches in the Archdiocese of Manila in the year 2000. In October 2001, the Ecclesiastical District of Pasig was created, covering the Vicariate of the Immaculate Conception, along with the parishes of Pateros and Taguig. Nestor Cariño served as the only district bishop. Two years later,
Pope John Paul II signed his
Papal Bull, , decreeing the establishment of a new diocese comprising
Pasig,
Pateros, and
Taguig. The parish was designated to be the cathedral and seat of the Bishop of
Pasig.
Francisco San Diego became the founding bishop of the diocese on August 21, 2003. Gabriel became its first rector. After Gabriel resigned some weeks after, San Diego named the Vicar-General, Rodolfo Gallardo, as the new rector of the cathedral. Gallardo was installed rector. During his short stint as rector, he mobilized the church's
PPCRV awareness campaign for the
May 2004 national presidential elections and started the
Simbamahalaan encounter between parish lay leaders and
LGU leaders and workers of Pasig Hall. Upon his retirement in February 2005, San Diego took over as acting parish priest and rector. In June 2005, Roy Rosales was named fourth rector of the cathedral. He spearheaded the restoration of most of the cathedral's artifacts, like the image of Our Lady of the Apocalypse, the
baptistery, the cathedral
facade, the processional image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the
retablos and the original image of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of Pasig. It was also through the efforts of Rosales that the Immaculate Conception Cathedral-Parish witnessed the Solemn
Canonical Coronation of its patron as
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Pasig on December 7, 2008. The celebration was led by the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines,
Edward Joseph Adams, the Bishop of Pasig, and the entire faithful in the diocese. In May 2010, Orlando Cantillon was named fifth rector of the cathedral. In February 2015, Bishop
Mylo Hubert Vergara named Joselito I. Jopson, parish priest of
Santo Rosario de Pasig Parish, as the sixth rector and eighth Filipino parish priest of the cathedral. In February 2021, Mariano L. Baranda was named the new rector and parish priest. In February 2021, as part of the Celebration of the
500th Year Anniversary of the Arrival of
Christianity in the Philippines, the Cathedral-Parish was named as a Jubilee Church in the Diocese of Pasig along with the Diocesan Shrine of St. Martha and Parish of St. Roch in
Pateros and the
Minor Basilica and Archdiocesan Shrine Parish of St. Anne in
Taguig. On March 25, 2022, the seven year-long restoration and renovation of the cathedral (including the addition of ceiling paintings) concluded with a grand inauguration and blessing officiated by Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara. The restoration and renovation was done under the under the supervision of Camarera Mayor Wilfrieda Legaspi. == Image of
La Inmaculada Concepción de Pasig ==