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Mill Hill Churches
When the Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM) arrived in West Visayas in 1906, many parish churches were dilapidated or even destroyed. So they either repaired them or built makeshift bamboo chapels (ermitas). Gradually, they built more permanent concrete churches.
In Negros Occidental was in Himamaylan by Fr. James Gregory Jockson (1934).
In Antique were: Casay by Fr. Max Abler (1917) which was the first concrete church built by the MHM and was later enlarged by Fr. Jospeh Daly. Sebaste by Fr. Rudolph Caspar Petrus Greiterman (1939), Valderama by Fr. Cornelius Johannes Koelman (1939), Pandan by Fr. Corelius Leonardus Antonius hulsbosch (1952) Caluya by Fr. Eugene Daberto (1954) Hamtik by Fr. Luis Figal (1958), Egana (in Sibalom) by Fr. William George Maierhofer (1962), Barbaza by Fr. Lawrence English (1975) and Culasi by Fr. Henricus Willabordus Maria Smithius (1977).
The churches of Culasi and Barbaza are both of modern architectural designs.
In Iloilo, the Mill Hill churches were: Santa Teresita by Fr. Lawrence Rogan (1929), Lawigan (in San Joaquin) by Fr. Philip Pierk (1939) Tanza by Fr. Anthony Verheyer (1951) and Igbaras by Fr. Andres Jacobs (1953).