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===Reception into the Orthodox Church===
For 16 years, Fr. Vincentius' foundation has been misunderstood most of the time by the diocesan hierarchy. In spite of all his efforts to conform himself and his community to the Roman Catholic hierarchy he was still not appreciated. All his efforts were futile and hopeless until he finally came to realize that God called him to show that salvation is not a monopoly of the Roman Church because there is such a thing as Holy Catholic and Apostolic GREEK CHURCH Greek Church to where he and his disciples belong.
He decided to affiliate his foundation to the Greek Orthodox Church and this was finally realized in the year 1990 after a long period of catechetical instructions on orthodoxy. On April 20, 1990, Friday, a simple but great historic event in the Philippine Orthodoxy took place in the house of Sir Alexander Adamson, then Consul General of Greece. At 8:00 a.m. Metropolitan [[Dionysios (Psiahas) of Proussa|Dionysios]] of New Zealand, Exarch of the Philippines and of the Far East officially accepted into the Holy Orthodox Church Fr. Vincentius and his twelve other companions by the Solemn Rite of Chrismation. The next day, April 21, 1990 Fr. Vincentius celebrated his first Divine Liturgy as an Orthodox priest which coincided with the 20th anniversary of his priesthood.
