Cabalian is best known as one of the oldest town in the history of Leyte. And one of those historical sites which proves the reality of this phrases is the old Cabalian Catholic Church.

The church was said to be the town’s oldest existing structure. It was constructed on 1892 through free labor of then cora paruco Padre Enrique de Carillo.

The church was built after the town’s patron saint, St. John de Baptist which became the symbol of deep rooted Christian faith and strugle.

The year 1892, as etched on the walls of the church marked a religious improvements in the tiny Spanish pueblo of Cabalian in the Pacific stretch of the island of Leyte just thirty-two years after its foundation. Built of magnificent adobe and coraln stones mortared by local mortar of lime and egg yolk, the grandiose church began a labyrinthine history under the supervission of the spanish Prayles, the church stood in the heart of the pueblo, the magnificient and panoramic view of the Cabalian bay in the front and the nimbe Mt. Kabalian and its sister hill, Mt.Kantayuktok in the backdrop.