Soon after, on March 5, 1575, Father Provincial Alfonso Alvarado was assigned to lead the convent of Lubao.

Juan Gallegos, assigned as the first resident priest of Lubao, who organized the early settlement and made the church structures of light materials in a place called Sitio Sapang Pare, a landing place for missionaries coming in from Manila Bay and the tributaries of the Pampanga River.

Other sources assert that it was Father Francisco Coronel who founded and established the town at its present site and started building the current edifice.

[2][3] On April 22, 2019, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake[4] struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines, leaving at least 18 dead, three missing and injuring at least 256 others.

The flat surface of facade is bare of ornamentation save for the central retablo of niches, fluted pilasters and Ionic columns in Neoclassical style.

Accordingly, the San Agustin church did not pass requirements to be declared a National Cultural Treasure because what remains of the original structure is less than 60 percent.