[2] Lipa was originally located close to the Laguna de Bombon, present-day Taal Lake.

Benito Baras completed the construction of the church in 1894[4] and later built a bridge linking Lipa to Tanauan.

His successor, Pius X, by papal declaration "Novas Erigere Ecclesias", erected five new ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the Philippines: the Dioceses of Lipa, Calbayog, Tuguegarao, Zamboanga, and the Apostolic Prefecture of Palawan.

[2] During the late 19th century, there was intense competition among the towns of Batangas, Bauan, Lipa, Taal, and Tanauan for the selection of the seat of the new diocese in the Southern Tagalog region (present-day Calabarzon).

[5] In 1944, the cathedral was heavily damaged during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines as part of the Second World War.