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.