Trinity University of Asia, also known as TUA or simply Trinity, is a private Protestant affiliated research university located in Quezon City, Philippines. It was named after Trinity College whose pr
Facade in April 2023
Central Philippine University is a private Protestant research university in Iloilo City, Philippines. Established in 1905 through a grant from the American industrialist and philanthropist John D. Ro
Trinity University of Asia
…Universities in the Philippines" list. At present, it maintains accord and academic affiliation with the American founded universities in the country, the Central Philippine University and Silliman University. Protestantism developed in the Philippines when the United States took possession of the Philippines with the 1898 Treaty of…
John D. Rockefeller, an American industrialist, philanthropist, and devout Baptist is Central's main benefactor. His benevolent grant to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society for the purpose of establishing schools that will train ministers and other Christian workers and for boys in the Philippines, resulted to the founding of Central Philippine University.
The Jaro Evangelical Church was founded in 1900 by American Baptist Missionaries as "the first Baptist church in the Philippines" and the "first Protestant church outside Manila". It has been closely associated with Central, acting as a catalyst for its founding in 1905. Before the creation of the CPU Church, the early students of the university would go to this church every Sunday to worship.
The Reverend William Valentine, the founder and first president of Central.
The Central Philippine University–Iloilo Mission Hospital Main Hall in its new location in 1931 in the City of Jaro (now a present district of Iloilo City). Founded in 1901 by Presbyterian missionary doctor Joseph Andrew Hall, it is the first American and Protestant hospital in the Philippines.