Excerpts from a speech by His Eminence the Metropolitan of New Zealand & Amfilochios (Tsukou) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9uWWmgFXUw
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Bishop of Ganos and Chora (previously of New Zealand) Amphilochios
His Eminence, bishop Amphilochios of Ganos and Chora was born in 1938. Since 1968 he has served the Orthodox Missions in Kenya and Congo (DRC). He was ordained a bishop in 2005 and was confided the pastoral leadership of the Diocese of New Zealand. During his 13-year-old ministry there, he founded new Missions in the island states of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa with wonderful results. In 2018 he resigned due to old age and he was assigned the diocese of Ganos and Chora in the European part of Turkey.
