A Brief History of Cavite Lodge

"Cavite Lodge No 2 was originally organized on October 18, 1902 with a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of California (GLC); with WM Bro Michael E. Mason as its first Worshipful Master.

On October 15, 1903 its charter was signed in San Francisco, California, USA and the lodge was numbered Cavite Lodge No 350 (GLC).

The lodge was formally constituted on November 24, 1903. It joined with Manila Lodge No 342 and Corregidor Lodge No 386; both also under the Grand Lodge of California, in organizing the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands (GLPI) on December 12, 1912.

Cavite Lodge was given a new charter as Cavite Lodge No 2. WM Bro Burton Whitcomb was the lodge Worshipful Master at that time.

MW Bro Eugene Stafford was the GLPI first Grand Master. By 1917 the GLPI, with GM MW Bro William H. Taylor and the Gran Logia Regional de Filipinas (GLRF) of GM MW Bro Teodoro Kalaw united and merged to form the Grand Lodge of the Philippines (GLP) with ten lodges from the GLPI and 27 lodges from the GLRF.

Cavite Lodge No 2 retained its original name and number, after it joined and was rechartered under the Independent Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands (IGLPI) on September 10, 2006 with WM Bro Danilo B. Florendo, the incumbent Worshipful Master.

(Also see related November 3, 2007 article: "Cavite Lodge No 2 105th Anniversary", by clicking here.)

The above article was from the Cavite Lodge No 2, IGLPI. It must be stated that there is another Cavite Lodge No 2 under the MW Grand Lodge of the Philippines (GLP).