 These are the languages used in the Catholic liturgy.On December 24, 1979, the Territorial Prelature of Ipil was established from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Zamboanga

The Prelature of Ipil is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga with whom it shares much of its history of evangelization.The faith was first brought to the Zamboanga Peninsula by the Jesuit Missionaries as early as 1635.