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[[Image''"We have found the 'Pearl of Great Price'; we are Home; no more orphans but true brothers and sisters to some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide and having the same spiritual father - the fervent supplicant before God - the Ecumenical Patriarch; and I am clothed with a robe of gladness, and I am just beginning to do the tasks properly and orderly,"'' Fr. Philemon said.<ref>Quotation from the site of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South East Asia,http:Archimadrite_philemon//www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/dimitris/metro/hkmetropolis.htm.JPG|left|thumb|300pxl| Archimandrite Philemon]]</ref>{{stub}}
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[[Image:Archimadrite_philemon.JPG|right|thumb|Archimandrite Philemon]]'''Philemon Castro''' (b. [[June 7]]) is an [[archimandrite]] in Paranaque City, Philippines , under [[Metropolitan]] Nikitas [[Nektarios (Tsilis) of Hong Kong|Nektarios]] of the Metropolinate [[Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia|Metropolitinate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia]].
Rev. Father Philemon was canonically ordained to the priesthood by His Eminence Metropolitan Dionysios of New Zealand at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Seoul, Korea, on [[April 2]], 1995. On the following Sunday, during the Patriarchal Liturgy, Fr. Philemon was also received by His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I.
==Notes==<small><references/></small> ==See also==* [[Orthodoxy in the Philippines]] ==External link==*http://holytrinity.faithweb.com/ Holy Trinity Orthodox Church], Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.*[http://www.ocmc.org/magazine.php?action=topic&id=4&sub=magazine#59 Called to the Philippines] by Fr. John W. Morris ([[OCMC]]) [[Category:Priests]][[Category: ClergyMonastics]]