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The Philippine Orthodox Church is the government approved and registered legal name of the Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate in the Philippines. Generally, it refers to the officially established Eastern Orthodox presence in the Philippines as a whole.〔()〕 Currently, there are only four Orthodox canonical missions in the Philippines: * The Philippine Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), under the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)〔philippines.orthodox.ph〕 * The Exarchate of the Philippines, under the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople * The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Mission in the Philippines, under the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All of the East. * The Philippine Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church, under the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ==History== Around the beginning of the 20th century, Greek sailors settled in Legaspi, Albay on the island of Luzon. Their descendants now number no more than 10 families, who have kept their Greek surnames and have become distinguished public figures and intellectuals, including serving in the Greek consulate in Manila. One of the first Orthodox Christian faithful to arrive in the Philippine province of Albay was Alexandros Athos Adamopoulos (later angliised to Alexander A. Adamson), who came to Legaspi City in 1928. Together with his brother and cousin he co-founded Adamson University in 1932, which is now owned by the Vincentian Fathers of the Roman Catholic Church. During the American colonial regime, some Russian émigrées fleeing the Soviet Union arrived in the Philippines. In 1935, the Russian Orthodox Church established the first Orthodox parish 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 of Saint Mary and Saint John for worship. In 1937, the Russian Orthodox Church built the first Orthodox church in the Philippines, dedicated and named after the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God. Both the Episcopal Cathedral and the Russian Orthodox church in Manila were destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombardment during the city's liberation at the end of the Second World War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Philippine Orthodox Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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