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removed "the first Orthodox CATHEDRAL"- this is a totally UNSUPPORTED claim. Where do you get this legend? Pls. check http://orthodox.cn/history/pozdnyaev/app2_en.htm for the FACTS.
== Orthodoxy in the Philippines ==
Orthodoxy arrived in the Philippines during the American colonial regime due to the influx of Russian emigrees fleeing the Soviet regime. In 1935, a Russian [[parish]] was established in Manila, and the [[Patriarch]] of Moscow and All Russia appointed Father Mikhail Yerokhin as vicar. The Episcopal Church then permitted Fr. Mikhail to use the north transept of their cathedral for worship. In 1937, the first Orthodox cathedral church was built and was named after the Iberian [[Icon]] of the Mother of God. This also became the first Orthodox [[altar]] in the Philippines. Later, both the Episcopal and Russian Orthodox cathedrals were destroyed during the Second World War. [[Image:John Maximovitch Tubabao.jpg|left|thumb|Abp. John Maximovitch in Tubabao]]
===St. John of Shanghai and San Franciso===
