<P> During the American colonial regime that time in the Philippine islands, the Americans brought with them their faith, the Protestantism . A comity agreement was made in 1898 that the Philippine islands would be divided into different Protestant denominations for missionary works to avoid future conflicts; Iloilo is one of the very first places in the country where the early Protestant sects came . Western Visayas and Negros, in accordance with the comity agreement, was given to the religious jurisdictions of the Baptists, although other Protestant sects were allowed to do missions in the same area . </P> <P> The Protestant missionaries initiated large - scale enterprises in the predominantly Catholic province . The Presbyterians established the first Protestant and American hospital in the country, the Iloilo Mission Hospital . Supposedly it came also that Iloilo is the original location for foundation of Silliman University, the first Protestant and American university in the country and in Asia . However, due to the Catholic opposition where the school will stand, the founder, David Hibbard, prospected some new locations . He went to Cebu and later had a side trip in Dumaguete City, where he had a decision to establish and where Silliman University is presently located . </P> <P> Baptists on the other hand, established institutions like Central Philippine University in 1905, as the first Baptist - founded and second American university in Asia; the Jaro Evangelical Church, the first Baptist church in the Philippines; and the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches, the oldest Baptist organizational body in the Philippines . Later, the Seventh - day Adventists established the Jaro Adventist Center, the first organized Seventh - day Adventist church in the islands . </P> <P> Central Philippine University was established through a grant given by the American industrialist and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller . Central Philippine University pioneered the work - study program in the country which was later patterned and followed by other institutions and has also established the first and oldest student governing body in South East Asia modeled on the American civil government, the Central Philippine University Republic in 1906 after the Jaro Industrial School, CPU's forerunner, was established . On other hand, Protestant Presbyterians who established the Iloilo Mission Hospital established the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses which later became Central Philippine University College of Nursing, the first nursing school in the Philippines . Up to the present, the various evangelical Protestant denominations (composing around 2.8% of the Filipinos) and their educational institutions also serve Catholic students in Iloilo, who make up 83% of the population . </P>

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