Philip Silouan Thompson has worked as an editor, a janitor, an internet system administrator, a Web content consultant, and an Evangelical pastor. In 1999 he was received into the Orthodox Church.
In 2012 he was ordained to the diaconate, and in 2014 to the priesthood. He now serves Orthodox parishes in the rapidly-growing Russian Orthodox mission in the Philippines.
Father Silouan also enjoys speaking of himself in the third person.