Speaking at the recent ordination, the Head of the Catholic Church in Fiji, Archbishop Peter Loy Chong said, “You are the voice of God to His people; you are to look after and abide by His calling into your lives,”
Deacon Filipo was born and raised in New Zealand of immigrant Samoan and Niuean parents.
He was a Marist Brother of the District of the Pacific for forty years, where he taught in various countries in South East Asia, Australia, Aotearoa-New Zealand and the Central and South Pacific Basin.
