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The UCCP Cosmopolitan Church is a Protestant church building in Manila, Philippines.HistoryThe Cosmopolitan Church's establishment traces back to the 1930s when 60 members of the Central Methodist Church at Kalaw Street, Ermita, Manila seceded from the American Methodist Episcopal Church in March 1933. The secession was led by Rev. Cipriano Navarro, Dr. Melquiades Gamboa, and Rev. Samuel Stagg who were instrumental to the creation of the Philippine Methodist Episcopal Church which in turn led to the establishment of the Cosmopolitan Student Church.The Cosmopolitan Church building was established in 1936. From 1942-1944 the Church building was used as a base of operations by Church members who were also part of the anti-Japanese guerilla resistance forces during the World War II. The Church building was eventually seized by the Japanese in September 1944. The Church building was rebuilt in 1945 after the building was burnt during the Battle of Manila. In 1948 Cosmopolitan Church, of the then Philippine Methodist Church, became part of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. In 2012, Cosmopolitan Church disaffiliated from the UCCP.The UCCP's National Commission on Discipline and Conflict Resolution (NCDCR) had held Pastor of Cosmopolitan Church pastor Phoebe Dacanay in contempt after she held an election in December 2011. This event was precipitated by a power struggle between Former Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Perfecto Yasay was accused of occupying and locking the church, after he had been disqualified from running for a church office according to pastor Phoebe Dacanay. Yasay said that the NCDCR locked the church building. This was to prevent Dacanay and her group from ransacking the office because they allegedly have plans of breaking away and setting up a separate church. Dacanay claimed these events had developed after Yasay and the wife of the disgraced former PCU President Oscar Suarez's Wife had their nominations were rejected. On May 8, 2012, NCDCR ordered the expulsion of Dacanay from the UCCP Roll of Pastors.