Although the Philippines is one of the oldest ancestral homes of the Recollection - present there since 1606- the Province of St. Ezequiel is the youngest among the eight Provinces that compose the Order. It was created on 1998, when the country celebrated its 100 years of independence. There are 145 religious whose medium age is 40 years. They attend to universities, parishes and colleges all throughout the archipelago, besides the missions in Sierra Leone and Taiwan.