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Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayan (Latin: Gregorius Aglipay; 5 May 1860 – 1 September 1940) was a former Catholic priest who became the first head of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente a Protestant sect in the form of a national church in the Philippines.Known for inciting patriotic rebellion among the Filipino clergy he was also a political activist who became acquainted with Isabelo de los Reyes who would start a Protestant church named after Aglipay in 1902.Aglipay was previously excommunicated by Archbishop Bernardino Norzaleda y Villa of Manila in May 1899 upon the expressed permission of Pope Leo XIII.
