1. Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Parish
Emerly Mae Marquez

2. History
• It was in 1958 when the residents of Project 8, (then the last of the government’s
housing project) decided to gather and have mass on Sundays. The first masses
were held in a make-shift garage used for storing paints and materials for the
construction of some houses in the zone.
• The community, then under the Parish of San Pedro Bautista, was given the
permission to have mass on Sundays. On September 1958, a typhoon hit the
country and the garage worship place was destroyed. Sunday masses still
continued in a neighbouring garage.
• Fr. Bertrand F. Demers, OMI, then a frequent presider of the community’s Sunday
masses, thought of building a small chapel in the Plaza. The chapel then was only
about 6 meters long. Although under construction the first Christmas celebration
was held there. Everybody from the community helped in their own little way in
constructing and making the chapel beautiful.

3. • A Parish is Born : In March 21, 1966, Our Lady of
Perpetual Help was canonically erected and Fr.
Alfonso Caparas was installed as the first Parish
Priest. An engineer by profession, he immediately
improved the façade of the church. Likewise,
through the years, additional improvements and
buildings were constructed.

4. Vision and Mission
“We envision ourselves as a community of renewed small
caring communities, a living witness of being a Church
of the Poor.”
“We, the Parishioners under the care of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help commit ourselves to: on-going
formation, full and active participation in the Priestly,
Prophetic, and Servant-Kingly mission of Christ,
intensified building of Basic Ecclesial Communities, the
promotion of timely and relevant activities and services
and journeying together with the youth.”

5. Rev. Fr. Nelson C. Orqueta
Present Parish Priest

6. The Most Reverend Honesto F. Ongtioco, D.D.
First Bishop of Cubao

7. • The Ministry:
• 1973-1974 – Spiritual Director, Professor, Mother of
Good Counsel, San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1974-1975 – Parochial Vicar, Holy Rosary Parish,
Angeles City
• 1975 – Acting Parish Priest, St. Catherine Parish, Porac,
Pampanga
• 1975 – Acting Director, St. Catherine Academy , Apalit,
Pampanga
• 1975-1977 – Parochial Vicar, St. Peter and Paul Parish,
Apalit, Pampanga

8. • 1975-1979 – Director, Archdiocesan Vocation
Commission
• 1977-1983 – Rector, Professor, Mother of Good
Counsel Seminary, San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1977-1980 – Vice Chancellor/Procurator, University of
the Assumption, San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1977-1984 – Chaplain, University of the Assumption,
San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1981-1984 – Chancellor/Procurator, Mother of Good
Counsel Seminary, San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1985-1987 – Chaplain, University of the Assumption,
San Fernando , Pampanga

9. • 1985-1987 – Chancellor/Procurator, Mother of Good Counsel
Seminary, San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1985-1987 – Spiritual Director/Procurator/Professor, Mother of
Good Counsel Seminary, San Fernando , Pampanga
• 1987-1992 – Parochial Vicar, St. Catherine Parish, USA
• 1987-1991 – Summer Parish Work in Staten Island , New York , USA
• 1990 – Assistant Chaplain of Filipino Migrant Workers, Rome
• 1992-1997 – Vice Rector/Econome, Pontifico Collegio Filipino, Rome
, Italy
• March 21, 1992 – Invested as Honorary Prelate
• April 25, 1997 – Rector, Pontifico Collegio Filipino, Rome , Italy
• April 8, 1998 – Appointed Bishop of Balanga
• June 18, 1998 – Consecrated Bishop at Cathedral of the
Assumption, San Fernando , Pampanga

10. Source
• https://sites.google.com/site/ourladyofperpet
ualhelpparish/parish-history