The first and foremost is a single charismatic leader who claims to have a special revelation from God. Felix Manalo was a former Catholic who abandoned Catholicism in his teens. He experimented with several Protestant denominations and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Manalo finally started his own church, the Iglesia ni Cristo, in 1914.
Si Felix Manalo ay isang dating katoliko na iniwan ang Katolisismo noong kanyang kabataan. Nageksperimento siya sa pamamagitan ng pagsapi sa ilang denominasyon ng mga Protestante at pagsapi sa Saksi ni Jehovah. Nagumpisang magtayo ng kanyang iglesia si Manalo noong 1914.