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Transfer of Bacolod to the Recollects, however, took place only in 1871. The following year (1849), Negros Island Gobernadorcillo Manuel Valdevieso y Morquecho transferred the capital of the Province of Negros from Himamaylan to Bacolod and the Augustinian Recollects were asked to assume spiritual administration of Negros, which they did that same year. A decree of 20 June 1848 by Gobernador General Clavería ordered the restructuring of Negros politically and religiously.
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In 1846, upon the request of Romualdo Jimeno, bishop of Cebu and Negros at that time, Governor-General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa sent to Negros a team of Recollect missionaries headed by priest Fernando Cuenca. He also encouraged migration to Bacolod and the opening of lands to agriculture and industry. He encouraged the people to settle once again near the sea. In September 1817, Fray (English: Friar) Julián Gonzaga from Barcelona was appointed as the parish priest. León Pedro was appointed interim parish priest and the following year became the first regular parish priest. Eusebio Laurencio became acting parish priest of Bacolod.
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By 1790, slave raids on Bacolod by Moro pirates had ceased. The town of Bacolod was constituted as a parroquia (English: parish) in 1788 under the secular clergy, but did not have a resident priest until 1802, as the town was served by the priest from Bago, and later Binalbagan. Bernardino de los Santos became the first gobernadorcillo (English: municipal judge or governor). īacolod was not established as a town until 1755 or 1756, after the inhabitants of the coastal settlement of San Sebastián de Magsung̃ay, were attacked by forces under Datu Bantílan of Sulu on July 14, 1755, and the villagers transferred from the coast to a hilly area called Bacólod (which is now the barangay of Granada). A corregidor (English: magistrate) by the name of Luis Fernando de Luna, donated a relic of the saint for the growing mission, and since then, the village came to be known as San Sebastián de Magsung̃ay. The early missionaries placed the village under the care and protection of Saint Sebastian sometime in the middle of the 18th century. When the neighboring settlement of Bago was elevated into the status of a small town in 1575, it had several religious dependencies and one of which was the village of Magsungay. Historical church accounts provide a glimpse of the early years of Bacolod as a mere small settlement by the riverbank known as Magsungay (translated as "horn-shaped" in English). History Ī view of the Capitol Park and Lagoon looking towards the Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol building Spanish colonial period It was officially called Ciudad de Bacólod (City of Bacolod) when Municipalidad de Bacólod (Municipality of Bacolod) was converted into a city in 1938.
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It is the center of the Bacolod metropolitan area, which also includes the cities of Silay and Talisay with a total population of 791,019 inhabitants, along with a total area of 578.65 km 2 (223.42 sq mi). With a total of 600,783 inhabitants as of the 2020 census, it is the most populous city in Western Visayas and the second most populous city in the entire Visayas after Cebu City. It is the capital of the province of Negros Occidental, where it is geographically situated but governed administratively independent. Bacolod, officially the City of Bacolod ( / b ɑː ˈ k ɔː l ə d/ Hiligaynon: Dakbanwa/Syudad sang Bacolod Tagalog: Lungsod ng Bacolod), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Western Visayas, Philippines.