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Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Greek sailors settled in Legaspi city on the island of Luzon about a century ago. Descendants of these Greek Orthodox Christian sailors now number no more than 10 families, who have kept their Greek surnames and many of whom have become distinguished public figures and intellectuals in the Philippines, including serving as the Greek consulate in Manila. They Though they do not, however, speak Greek. They also helped to , they were largely responsible for the re-establish establishment of an Orthodox presence in the Philippines by helping through their encouragement of Filipino converts and the Hellenic Orthodox Foundation. '''The Hellenic Orthodox Foundation''' One of the first Greek Orthodox to bring arrive in the first Filipino converts Philippines was Alexandros Athos Adamopoulos, who came to Orthodoxy Legaspi city in 1928. Together with his brother and cousin he co-founded Adamson University in 1932. The university was and by building an Orthodox temple is noted for its curriculum directed towards the needs of the Philippines in the areas of science, chemical and industrial engineering. Today Adamson University has attained recognition as on of the leading institutions for graduate education, law, arts, sciences, chemistry, computer education, engineering, commerce and architechture. The university has a few chapels student population of over 22,000. Alexandros Adamopoulos (Alexander A. Adamson) was appointed in 1942 by the 1990s for Greek government to take charge of Greek interests in the Philippines. He was later promoted to the use rank of converted Filipino Consul General of Greece.  In 1989 Alexander Adamson saw the need to establish the first true Greek Orthodox church in the Philippines and thus established the Hellenic Orthodox ChristiansFoundation Inc. They were also influential Although he died in 1993 before the church was completed, the Orthodox Cathedral was finished in 1996 and is constructed in true Byzantine style, with all the interior furnishings imported from Greece, and is home to approximately 200 Orthodox in Metro Manila, the establishment capital city of the Metropolitan of Hong Kong and Southeast AsiaPhilippines. This cathedral was consecrated by the Ecumenical Patriarch on March 5, 2000.