Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam

The Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam (also known as the Philippine–Vietnamese Diocese or the Filipino-Vietnamese Diocese, Russian: Филиппинско-Вьетнамская епархия, tr. Filippinsko-Vyetnamskaya yeparhiya) is a diocese of the Patriarchate of Moscow created on 26 February 2019, directly under the Patriarchal Exarchate in Southeast Asia (PESEA).

Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam
Location
TerritoryPhilippines
Vietnam
Ecclesiastical provincePatriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia
MetropolitanSergius (Chashin)
Information
DenominationEastern Orthodox Church
Established2014 (as its precursor, a diocese of the Philippines, the Philippine Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)),
2019 (as the Philippine-Vietnamese diocese of the PESEA)
LanguageCebuano, English, Church Slavonic, Tagalog
Current leadership
Parent churchRussian Orthodox Church
Bishop of Manila and HanoiPaul (Fokin)
Website
https://phvieparchy.org/en/
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