In order to gain experience and build partnerships with the universal Church, two lecturers of the doctoral school of the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of the University of Babeș-Bolyai University, Klára Csiszár and János Vik, visited the Philippines between 7-14 April 2023. The short visit to the Philippines was limited to the capital, Manila, and the town of Tagaytay, about 60 km away. During the one-week stay, four Catholic higher education institutions were visited, the first three of which have their own Catholic doctoral schools: the Catholic University of St. Thomas Aquinas (UST), the Jesuit-run private university Ateneo de Manila (AdMU), the Jesuit-run Institute for Missionary Studies on the Divine Word (DWIMS) and the Institute of Consecrated Life Asia (ICLA).