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[[Image:Archimadrite_philemon.JPG|right|thumb|Archimandrite Philemon]]'''Philemon Castro''' (b. [[June 7]]) is an [[archimandrite]] in Paranaque City, Philippines, under [[Metropolitan]] [[Nektarios (Tsilis) of Hong Kong|Nektarios]] of the [[Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia|Metropolitinate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia]].

Rev. Father Philemon was canonically ordained to the priesthood by His Eminence Metropolitan Dionysios of New Zealand at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Seoul, Korea, on [[April 2]], 1995. On the following Sunday, during the Patriarchal Liturgy, Fr. Philemon was also received by His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I.

''"We have found the 'Pearl of Great Price'; we are Home; no more orphans but true brothers and sisters to some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide and having the same spiritual father - the fervent supplicant before God - the Ecumenical Patriarch; and I am clothed with a robe of gladness, and I am just beginning to do the tasks properly and orderly,"'' Fr. Philemon said.<ref>Quotation from the site of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South East Asia,
http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dimitris/metro/hkmetropolis.htm.</ref>
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