The Orthodox missionary of Sumatra, Fr Chrysostomos Manalu, visited Greece in October and spoke at an event of the Brotherhood of Orthodox Foreign Missions about Orthodoxy in the most populous Muslim country of the world
Fr. Chrysostom Manalu speaks about the Indonesian Mission
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Fr. Chrysostomos Manalu
Fr. Chrysostomos Manalu was born in a Protestant family in Sumatra, Indonesia. He was converted to Orthodoxy by fr. Daniel Byantoro and in 1994 he came to Greece for graduate studies in Theolofy. He was then acquainted with our Fraternity and was ordained a presbyter in the Diocese of Arta. He returned to Indonesia in 2002, where he founded the Orthodox Mission in Northern Sumatra. He serves as the prelatic commissioner of Indonesia under the Diocese of Singapore.
