Gregorio Aglipay National Shrine
Philippines Historical Committee marker
Type	Shrine
Location	Batac, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Coordinates	18°3′9″N 120°33′42″E / 18.05250°N 120.56167°E / 18.05250; 120.56167
Designated	1949
Designation	National Shrine (Level 1)

The Gregorio Aglipay National Shrine is a memorial shrine in Batac, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.

The shrine is dedicated to Gregorio Aglipay (1860–1940). He was a Catholic priest and served as a military chaplain and military vicar general during the Philippine Revolution in 1898. He was excommunicated in 1899 for rebelling against Spanish rule in the Philippines, a period when Roman Catholicism was the state religion in the country. He became a member of the Malolos Congress from 1898 to 1899, the lone member coming from the religious sector and also represented his home province of Ilocos Norte. He was also a lieutenant-general during the Philippine-American War. Aglipay later co-founded the Philippine Independent Church with Isabelo de los Reyes in 1902 and became the church's first supreme bishop.^[1][2]

The shrine houses Aglipay's mausoleum and the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Philippine Independent Church.^[3] It has a marker dated 1949 from the Philippines Historical Committee, now the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.^[4] The commission declares the site as a national shrine.^[5]

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