Eastern Catholicism and the Far East

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Crescentinus said:
U.P. Diliman or U.P. Manila?
The University of the Philippines has their main campus in Diliman (a part of Quezon City, which is in part, in Metro Manila) and another campus in Manila.
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Diliman. Sorry, I used to live in Project 6 and there has always been one UP for me 😃
 
ConstantineTG said:
Diliman. Sorry, I used to live in Project 6 and there has always been one UP for me 😃
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is a student in U.P. Manila

What is his name? 🙂
I want to look for him and hopefully talk to him about the ECs here in the Far East. 🙂

Also, you lived here in the Far East? 🙂
 
Hesychios said:
There is a small UGCC community on Singapore. There may also be one in Hong Kong but I am not sure.

There was a White faction (anti-Communist Russians and others) presence in China after the Bolshevik Revolution, some of these refugees living in the Manchurian area (Russian influenced area until the Japanese became dominant around 1905) which would have lasted until the Japanese defeat at the end of WW II. Among these anti-communists would be Russian Catholics, a small portion of Russian minority in China. As with the Orthodox the community was centered in the area of Harbin.

After the Japanese defeat, Communist Russia occupied areas of northern China briefly, and began the process of repatriating Soviet citizens, so at this time people were getting out any way they could. The Chinese civil war between the KMT and the Communists resumed, and Manchuria was one of the first areas to fall to the Communists.

By the time the Chinese Civil war ended in 1949, most Whites were gone or were on their way. This was the reason some Russian Catholics and Ukrainian Catholics found themselves in places like Hong Kong and Singapore, and by the way also San Francisco. 🙂 This was the same trek Orthodox were making.

The result is that Eastern Catholicism was entirely wiped out of China. Orthodoxy lasted a little longer (due to the fact that it had some native clergy) and was essentially snuffed out in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960’s.
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There isn’t one in Hong Kong but I think the RC diocese invited a Ukrainian priest from Australia (whom I know) to come over and do a talk on the Byzantine Rite including a culturally adapted Divine Liturgy.

You can watch the video here :youtu.be/qv61r5YtWNQ
 
Crescentinus said:
is a student in U.P. Manila

What is his name? 🙂
I want to look for him and hopefully talk to him about the ECs here in the Far East. 🙂

Also, you lived here in the Far East? 🙂
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Born and raised my friend. I left the motherland when I was 30 years old, which was not too long ago 😉
 
ConstantineTG said:
There isn’t one in Hong Kong but I think the RC diocese invited a Ukrainian priest from Australia (whom I know) to come over and do a talk on the Byzantine Rite including a culturally adapted Divine Liturgy.

You can watch the video here :youtu.be/qv61r5YtWNQ
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I remember Father Serge (Memory Eternal!) traveled to Singapore to serve a Divine Liturgy. The community might be too small to have a priest of their own.

Through the prayers of the Holy Chinese Martyrs,
O Christ God, be merciful unto us and save us
 
Crescentinus said:
Motherland? I call the Philippines as Fatherland. 😃

Also, how about my other question? 🙂
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Oh, I do not know the name of the priest, sorry. I never knew about him until I moved to Canada. You can search the blog that was given to you. I think they attended last year’s Holy Qurbono. They may have the name of the priest there.
 
ConstantineTG said:
Oh, I do not know the name of the priest, sorry. I never knew about him until I moved to Canada. You can search the blog that was given to you. I think they attended last year’s Holy Qurbono. They may have the name of the priest there.
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You mean ERCF? O:
 
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