The city of Iloilo remains as a prominent enclave for Catholicism all over the Philippines. To date, the Archbishop of Manila, Jaime Cardinal L. Sin, D.D. hails from the town of Washington in Iloilo.

The years of preservation as well as the absence of any geologic disturbances or earthquakes helped preserve some of the Spanish inspired architectures like the bellfry of Jaro. The bellfry is all what is left of a church that was burned down. Beside the bellfry now stands the Cathedral of the Diocese of Jaro.