Limasawa is a municipality and an island of the same name in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 5,157 people in 1,108 households. It lies south of Leyte, in the Mindanao Sea. The island is about 10 km from north to south. Image File history File links Ph_locator_southern_leyte_limasawa. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Southern Leyte is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Leyte (pronounced LAY-teh or LAY-tee) is an island in the Visayas group of the Philippines. ... The Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, is located between Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines. ...
Barangays
Limasawa is politically subdivided into 6 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
Cabulihan
Lugsongan
Magallanes
San Agustin
San Bernardo
Triana
History
"Limasawa" is so named because it is not "Masawa", the island where the first Mass in the Philippines was celebrated. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) presiding at the 2005 Easter Vigil Mass in place of Pope John Paul II. Mass is the term used of the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin rites of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church. ...
The diocese comprises the entire province of SouthernLeyte, and the towns of Matalon, Bato, Hilongos, Hindang, Inopacan and Baybay in the province of Leyte, with the Maasin Parish Cathedral as the seat of the diocese.
And the small island of Limasawa off its southern coast is historically significant as the place where Magellan landed, after having sailed from the island of Homonhon in Samar, to celebrate the first Catholic mass in the Philippines.
Leyte and Samar were once considered one single political unit by the Spanish government, falling under the administration of the government of Cebu.
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