But by that time, the movement had already spread throughout the Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and the United States of America.

Before his appointment as head of the church, he served as long-time senior archbishop and chancellor to the patriarch at the National Shrine of Ina Poon Bato in Quezon City, Philippines.

[12] The members of the congregations are the archbishops, bishops, priests, deacons, subdeacons, nuns, and third order members, bound by their evangelical vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, acceptance of their immediate superiors to the patriarch and to God the Holy Spirit, whom adherents address as Ingkong (an archaic Tagalog honorific often glossed as "grandfather", used to refer to any elderly man).

[13] The church currently has 32 dioceses worldwide located all over the Philippines as well as in various key cities of the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Russia and the Pacific Islands.

[14] The shrine was preceded by a chapel built in the 1980s at the northern end of the EDSA dedicated to Our Lady of Ina Poon Bato.

[4] The Shrine of the Paraclete is one of the main cathedrals of the Apostolic Catholic Church and serves as the pontifical seat of Patriarch Juan Almario E.M.

[19] The church believes that by divine revelation, the third person of the Trinity called himself with the name Ingkong and manifested himself in the Philippines through Maria De Teruel.