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Asia needs a Russian Orthodox bishop, rector says

Moscow Patriarchate's efforts in China remain insufficient
Asia needs a Russian Orthodox bishop, rector says
Published: January 19, 2016 06:52 AM GMT
Updated: January 19, 2016 06:53 AM GMT

The Russian church needs to consecrate a bishop for ministry in East Asia, the rector of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Hong Kong believes.

"We have a parish in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Soon there will be parishes in the Philippines. It is East Asia and I believe it is not bad to have a bishop here who would be able to ordain priests from local residents without additional coordination with Moscow," Father Dionisy Pozdnyayev said in an interview with Vesti.ru.

According to Pozdnyayev, a bishop is needed "to balance our relations with the Constantinople patriarchate as Greeks have a metropolis in Korea, in Hong Kong and Singapore. We don't."

"Western authors even introduced a new term "Christian fever" to describe what happened in China in last 20-30 years. There has never been such dynamics in growth of the number of Christians in any country of the world," the priest said.

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