Editing Katipunan (section)

===Members===
[[File:Katipuneros.jpg|thumb|right|A late 19th-century photograph of armed Filipino revolutionaries, known as the ''Katipuneros''.]]
Over the next four years, the ''Katipunan'' founders would recruit new members. By the time the society was uncovered, the American writer James Le Roy estimated the strength of the Katipunan at 100,000 to 400,000 members.<ref>{{Cite book |last=LeRoy |first=James |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015071162989?urlappend=%3Bseq=125%3Bownerid=13510798896799107-137 |title=The Americans in the Philippines; A History of the Conquest and First Years of Occupation, With an Introductory Account of the Spanish Rule |publisher=AMS Press |year=1970 |page=85 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015071162989?urlappend=%3Bseq=125 |language=en}}</ref> Historian Teodoro Agoncillo estimated that the membership had increased to around 30,000 by 1896.<ref name=Agoncillo1990p166>{{Harvnb|Agoncillo|1990|p=166}}</ref> The [[Ilocano people|Ilocano]] writer [[Isabelo de los Reyes]] estimated membership at 15,000 to 50,000.

Aside from Manila, the ''Katipunan'' also had sizeable chapters in [[Batangas]], [[Laguna (province)|Laguna]], [[Cavite]], [[Rizal (province)|Rizal]], [[Bulacan]], [[Pampanga]], [[Tarlac]] and [[Nueva Ecija]]. There were also smaller chapters in [[Ilocos Sur]], [[Ilocos Norte]], [[Pangasinan]] and the [[Bicol Region|Bicol region]]. The Katipunan founders spent their free time recruiting members. For example, Diwa, who was a clerk at a judicial court, was assigned to the office of a justice of the peace in Pampanga. He initiated members in that province as well as Bulacan, Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija. Most of the Katipuneros were plebeian although several wealthy patriots joined the society and submitted themselves to the leadership of Bonifacio.

''Katipunero'' (plural, ''mga Katipunero'') is the [[demonym]] of a male member of the Katipunan. ''Katipunera'' (plural, ''mga Katipunera'') refers to female members.