In the past 110 years, two local Churches have sprung up. The Philippine Independent Church was founded by Gregorio Aglipay, a priest in the time of the rebellion against the Spanish, who left the Catholic Church. It has subsequently joined with the American Episcopalian Church. The Iglesia ni Cristo was founded in 1914 by Felix Manalo Ysagun. It builds huge churches of the same drsign throughout the country, is authoritarian, and requries its members to be clean, disciplined, and God-fearing.