wanted to go to all parts of the archipelago. It was during such time when the inception of establishing an Protestant Episcopalian school and hospital was conceived. Episcopalian American missionaries established the St. Luke's Medical Center in 1903 which later the Trinity University of Asia is closely affiliated with.. St. Luke's foundation as a dispensary in 1903 by the Episcopalians as the second Protestant hospital in the Philippines after Iloilo Mission Hospital of Central Philippine University in Iloilo, has made it grow and become one of the reputable and renowned healthcare institutions in the country. The Trinity University of Asia-St. Luke's College of Nursing, a collegiate and organic unit of the university founded in 1907 as St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, is the precursor and oldest academic unit predating Trinity's founding by 56 years. Since the Philippines was divided into various Protestant missions, Trinity University of Asia at present, maintaints accord and linkage with other Protestant and American founded institutions in the country - Silliman University (Protestant Presbyterian) and Central Philippine University (Protestant Baptist). Trinity College of Quezon City Trinity College of Quezon City was launched through the bequest of the Procter and Gamble stock of the family of Rt. Rev. Lyman C. Ogilby, then Bishop of the Philippine Episcopal Church, initiated the move to set up a Christian college. The seed money was used to purchase the former Capitol City College on 226 Eulogio Rodriguez Senior Boulevard, Quezon City, the current location of the university's elementary and high schools. Initially there were 1,700 students enrolled. The College offered Basic Education and three collegiate courses - Liberal Arts, Commerce, and Teacher Education. That same year, the first Board of Trustees, headed by the Rev. Wayland S. Mandell, was convened, and the first College President, Dr. Arthur L. Carson, was installed. By 1965, the Joint Council of the Church led by Bishop Ogilby of the Philippine Episcopal Church and Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente approved the transfer of the collegiate courses to the college's present location, the Cathedral Heights compound. The Arts and Science Building was the sole structure for all the colleges, until St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing merged with TCQC to form a five-year collegiate course in nursing. St. Luke's Nurse's Home became part of the college's expansion, where it provided space for teaching. A medical technology course was later affiliated with