The Philippine Independent Church (officially in Spanish: Iglesia Filipina Independiente; Filipino/Tagalog: Malayang Simbahan ng Pilipinas; Ilocano: Nawaya a Simbaan ti Filipinas; Latin: Lībera Ecclēsia Philippīna; and colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, IFI, and PIC) is an independent[d] Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church, in the Philippines.[e] Its schism from the Roman Catholic Church was proclaimed during the American colonial period in 1902, following the end