History

Acting upon the pastoral needs of the People of God, and with the recommendation of the College of Consultors and the Archdiocesan Office for Research and Development(AORD), hereby establish, by virtue of this Decree, the Parish of St.Peter, New Capitol Estates,Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City.

The Parish was bounded by Batasan Road on the North; Tandang Sora on the South; Commonwealth Avenue on the West.

St. Peter Parish began in 1993 upon her formal erection as a parish like a mustard seed, with no parish church and even without the site for which to build the church.

Equipped only with faith the size of a mustard seed, her first Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Gerardo R. Tapiador and the First Parish Council were able to acquire the site in 1994 on an installment basis. The construction of the church began in 1995 and the level of the main church was adequately completed in 1999. His eminence,(+) Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, DD, Archbishop of Manila, formally dedicated the Church and consecrated her altar on August 15, 1999.The feast day is on February 22.

February 22 is the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. This Feast is the proper feat day of the Parish of St. Peter, strategically located along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City.

This Feast highlights the teaching authority of the church conferred by Christ on St. Peter. It brings to mind the mission of the teacher and pastor . Peter become the first pope and continued his leadership in an unbroken time down to the present Pope of the Catholic Church.

We celebrate the unity of the Church founded on the Apostle and renew our assent to the magisterum of the Roman Pontiff extended both to truths which are solemnly defined as "ex cathedra" and to all the acts of the ordinary magisterum.