San Agustin Parish Church (Bay, Laguna) San Agustin Parish Church (Bay, Laguna) St. Augustine Parish Church (Filipino: "Simbahan at Parokya ni San Agustin") is the only Augustinian Roman Catholic church in Bay, Laguna, in the Philippines. The church was first administered by Augustinians friars and later transferred to the Franciscans. The current parish priest is Reverend Father John F. Tabot. It is historically considered as the oldest Roman Catholic church in the Province of Laguna upon the early conquest and establishment of La Laguna. The first church of Bay was constructed made of light material of bamboo and nipa by the first ever catholic missionaries in
Rancho Laguna (Alemany) of Laguna Lake. With Laguna Lake Park, the Laguna Lake Natural Reserve encloses the most of the shoreline of the lake and the lower reach of Prefumo Creek and its delta on the shore of the lake (following its diversion into the late 1950's), omitting only the northernmost area, called the Northwest Inlets. The reserve also encloses a strip of grasslands to the northeast of the lake to near the crest of the serpentine rock ridgeline. Rancho Laguna (Alemany) Rancho Laguna part of the grazing lands granted to Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in 1844, surrounding Laguna Lake at