Redondo this reports that the date of the oldest parish records as of 1884 was 3 June 1804; this year the parish of the Immaculate Conception was erected and placed under the Augustinian Fray Pedro Gómez.

In 1843, Dulag and all its visitas, Burauen included, were ceded to the Franciscans. In 1844, Fray Francisco López was assigned as the first Franciscan pastor; he also constructed a wooden church and parish residence. Construction continued during the years that followed.

In Late 1880s, Some Leyte towns were given to the seculars. The Filipino secular Sergio Osmeña constructed a new church to replace the older one built by the Franciscans. This church was subsequently destroyed during the World War.

Dulag

In 1582, The Augustinians arrived in Dulag on Leyte’s western shore. But their mission was transitory. (Putong [825] says the Augustinians founded Dulag.)

In 1595, Dulag’s evangelization began when Pedro Chirino arrived there. In 1596, September, the first group of resident Jesuit missionaries, Alonso Humanes and Juan del Campo, was brought from Cebu by the encomendero Don Pedro Hernández.

In 1595–1603, Humanes organized the natives into towns.

On 29 October 1603, the newly formed town of Dulag was plagued by a slave raid during which the Jesuit missionary Fr. Hurtado was captured. In 1610, Locusts infested the crops. Before this, two typhoons destroyed the Jesuit-built church. In September 1611, another devastating typhoon leveled the town.

In 1768, Dulag was ceded to the Augustinians. Huerta attributes the church of rubblework, under the advocacy of Our Lady of Refuge, to the Jesuits. Some time etween 1768 and 1843, The Augustinian Fray Cipriano Barbasan enlarged and remodeled the church, added ornaments to the altar, constructed watchtowers on the hills of Calbasag and Mt. Laberanan in San José.

In 1843, Fray Francisco Rosas became the first Franciscan pastor of Dulag. In Before 1853, he added a new sacristy, repaired and repainted the stone convento, apparently Jesuit-built. Rosas and Fray Cecilio Bris supervised the construction of a road fit for traveling on horseback from Dulag to neighboring Abuyog.

Nothing much remains of Dulag church having been destroyed by the World War.

Burauen was a visita of Dulag. In c. 1750–68, Capt. Agustín Ezequías laid out the town while the Jesuits helped build the church and tribunal (Tantuico, 23). Jorde Pérez (825) claims however that the Augustinians founded the town in 1775. In 1768, Burauen was ceded to the Augustinians.

In 1582, The Augustinians arrived in Dulag on Leyte’s western shore. But their mission was transitory. (Putong [825] says the Augustinians founded Dulag.)