Native soldiers and their families in the Philippines, c.1920. The Protestant Episcopal Church established a presence in the Philippine Islands at the turn of the twentieth century, ministering to American troops stationed there after the Spanish-American War. In November 1901 the General Convention created a missionary district in the Philippines that continued until 1988 when the 69th General Convention passed a resolution releasing the Philippine Episcopal Church from the jurisdiction of the Episcopal Church for the purpose of forming a new Province of the Anglican Communion.

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