San Sebastian Cathedral is a late 19th-century Roman Catholic church in Bacolod, Negros Occidental in the Philippines.

A small village inhabited by Malayans called Magsungay was placed under the protection of St. Sebastian by early Christian missionaries during the 1700s.

[3] Due to widespread Moro pirate attacks, the people of Magsungay moved to a new settlement upon the hilly terrain called bakólod, the precursor of the modern-day city of Bacolod.

Gonzaga, a young priest from Barcelona, would envision the construction of the San Sebastian Church.

Julian (or Juan)[4] Gonzaga, from Barcelona, Spain, the parish priest from 1818 to 1836, constructed the original church in 1825.

[5] Bishop Mariano Cuartero of the Archdiocese of Jaro consecrated the church on the eve of the feast of Saint Sebastian, January 19, 1882.

The following day Bishop Cuartero celebrated pontifical mass before a congregation of government and Church officials of the province and Iloilo, parish priests and leading citizens.

Don Luis Ruiz de Luzurriaga donated a large clock which was mounted on this structure.

[7] Bishop Manuel Yap consecrated the cathedral in solemn ceremonies presided over by the Apostolic Nuncio on March 7, 1956, after renovation.

[6] In 1969, the Bacolod City Engineer's office declared the bell towers a public hazard; Fr.

The Spanish missionaries had placed Magsungay, the village that was the precursor of the modern city of Bacolod under the care and protection of Saint Sebastian sometime in the middle 1700s.