By the decision of the of the Holy Synod Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiisk and Surgut Paul became the head of the Philippines and Vietnam diocese

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By the decision of the of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (statement № 97) His Eminence Paul, Metropolitan of Khanty-Mansiisk and Surgut, became the head of the Philippines and Vietnam diocese in the Patriarch’s Exarchate of the South-East Asia and had acquired the status «Metropolitan of Manila and Hanoi» in the limits of this diocese.