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There are three autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches with a presence in the country, the jurisdictions of which overlap with each other. These are: 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 the East;
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, or Ivī́rṓn. 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.
In 1989, Adamopoulos saw the need to establish the first Greek Orthodox church in the Philippines and thus established the Hellenic Orthodox Foundation, Inc., but he died in 1993 before the church was completed. The Annunciation Orthodox Cathedral [4] in Sucat, Parañaque, Metro Manila, was finished in 1996. Constructed in true Byzantine style ...
Eastern Orthodox Christians from the Philippines (1 P) Pages in category "Eastern Orthodoxy in the Philippines" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
It is one of three Orthodox Christian jurisdictions in the Philippines. On the year 2012 in Trece Martires City, Cavite begun to spread out the Orthodox faith through Rev. Fr. Petrus Villaviray with Rev. Fr. Dcn. Melchizedek Alberto F. Batac, became his assistant. They were both ordained by Metropolitan Paul Saliba.
Based on the numbers of adherents, the Eastern Orthodox Church (also known as Eastern Orthodoxy) is the second largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church, with the most common estimates of baptised members being approximately 220 million.
The 2020 Census reported that 78.8 percent of the population professed Roman Catholicism; other Christian denominations with a sizable number of adherents include the Iglesia ni Cristo, the Philippine Independent Church, and Seventh-day Adventism.
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