Émile Barillon

Émile Marie Luc Alphonse Barillon MEP (18 October 1860 – 27 July 1935) was a French Catholic missionary who served as Bishop of Malacca-Singapore from 1904 to 1933.

Whilst in Penang, he acquired land in Macalister Road and built a small house and the Church of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows to cater to Chinese Catholics which he inaugurated in 1888.

The following year, he went to Batu Gajah to assist Father Allard, and then went to Ipoh where he again acquired land and built St Michael's Church where he served as parish priest from 1890 to 1892.

His intention to open a home for the aged poor was thwarted by the outbreak of the First World War when many staff returned to France.

In 1925, he established the seminary of St Francis Xavier at Serangoon to address the shortage of clergy during a time of rapid increase in the size of the Catholic community in Malaya.