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Currently, there are three canonically ordained Filipino Orthodox priests in the Philippines under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and are administratively under an ecclesiastical vicar from Greece.
The Divine Liturgy and other Orthodox worship services are said in English and in FilipinoTagolog, the official language of the Philippines. Since 2006 the Antiochian Orthodox Metropolitan of New Zealand and Australia, His Emminence Metropolitan Archbishop PaulSaliba has received contact from several families interested in an Antiochian presence in the Philippines. The interest has been responded to by the placement of an Orthodox Seminary/Study Center at St. Andrew's Seminary in Metro Manilla. The Study Center is to stimulate interest in Orthodox theology and history within the local Filipino population. His Beatutude Patriarch Ignatious IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All East, is very supportive of the local Filipino population mergingOrthodox practice with their own culture. True Orthodoxy is not about superimposing a foreign culture along with Orthodoxy. It is about maintaining apostolic succession in ordination and succession in theology.The rector of the Orthodox Student Center at St. Andrew's Episcopal Seminary is from the monastic community in Australia. Rector Abbot/Father Kristofor is gathering those interested in Orthodoxy as well as forming small parish communities within the settlement areas of the Philippines. Some of his first Orthodox seminarians are Christopher Kubiak and others. The Episcopal Church of the Philippines still maintains the supportive atmosphere it first did for the Russian Orthodox Church before the war.
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