With the blessing of the Patriarchal Exarch of Southeast Asia, Metropolitan Sergiy of Singapore (Chashin), a translation of the Great Canon of Andrew of Crete into Thai was prepared and published. The Department of the Bishops of Thailand of the Moscow Patriarchate made the translation, and it was sent to the parishes of the country.

This is informed by orthodoxianewsagency.gr.

Lord Sergiy was appointed as the ruling bishop of the newly formed Singapore Diocese with the instruction of the temporary administration of the Korean, Thailand and Philippine-Vietnamese dioceses by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on February 26, 2019.