Cubao Cathedral
| Cubao Cathedral | |
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| Immaculate Conception Cathedral of Cubao | |
Façade of Cubao Cathedral at dusk
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 Cubao Cathedral
Location in Metro Manila
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| Coordinates: 14°37′19″N 121°02′36″E / 14.62183°N 121.04346°E | |
| Location | Quezon City |
| Country |
 Philippines
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Website | Immaculate Conception Cathedral |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | Immaculate Conception Parish |
| Founded | July 15, 1950 |
| Dedication | Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Dedicated | December 8, 1949 |
| Consecrated | July 15, 1950 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Cathedral |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architectural type | Cathedral |
| Style | Italian-Romanesque |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Immaculate Conception Parish |
| Archdiocese | Manila |
| Diocese | Cubao |
| Province | Manila |
| Subdivision | Vicariate of the Holy Family |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Most. Rev. Honesto F. Ongtioco, D.D. |
| Rector | Rev. Ariston L. Sison, Jr., SCSL |
Cubao Cathedral (formal title: Immaculate Conception Cathedral), is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is the see of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cubao. It was built in 1950 by the Society of the Divine Word and belonged to the order until 1990 when the Archdiocese of Manila took over its administration. In 2003, it became the cathedral when the Diocese of Cubao was erected. The present rector of the cathedral is Rev. Fr. Ariston L. Sison, Jr., STL.
Since 1935, the SVD priests of Christ the King Mission Seminary attended to the pastoral and spiritual needs of a limited farming community around Manga Road in Cubao by first celebrating Mass in a small chapel near the present Cubao roundabout. Fr. Henry Demond, SVD then celebrated Mass in the residence of a certain Carbonell family, before to a quonset mess hall on what are now Spencer and Brooklyn streets. The building was abandoned by the combined US-Philippine Commonwealth Armed Forces.
As with other agrarian communities, farmers tilling the surrounding rice paddies invoked San Isidro Labrador, so the chapel built there was dedicated to him and belonged to Sacred Heart Parish in Kamuníng. While teaching as theology professor at Christ the King Mission Seminary (and later as Prefect of Scholastics), Fr. Ambrosio Manaligod and Ronnie Ganancias consistently lent a helping hand to the pastoral work of the parish especially in the direction of lay organisations.
In 1949, the chapel was re-dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. On 15 July 1950, the community chapel was elevated into a parish, with the first curé being the Argentine Fr. Juan Simón (1950–1954); he was succeeded by the German Fr. Alois Vogel (1954-1956) and Fr. Benito Rixner (1956–1958). For years the parish remained under the administration of the Society of the Divine Word, which was easy due to the proximity of the church to the main residence of the SVD missionaries at Christ the King Mission Seminary.
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