Ordination of a Priest from the Ulugulu Tribe in Tanzania
With simplicity but also with ecclesiastical splendor and with the wishes and blessings of H.D.B. Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa,
With simplicity but also with ecclesiastical splendor and with the wishes and blessings of H.D.B. Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa,
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord by arti…that they may rest from their labours, for their works follow them” (Rev. n. 13).
With ecclesiastical magnificence but also simplicity, as is customary in Africa, and with the blessings of HDB Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and
By the grace of God and with the wishes of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodore II, His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius
Very early in the morning, hundreds of students began to arrive at the newly built school to attend the consecration ceremony of the first Orthodox school in Morogoro Prefecture, in a new fruitful missionary effort in eastern Tanzania, where the majority of the inhabitants are Muslims!
Since early Monday morning, a large number of people had begun to arrive, in order to attend the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the third Orthodox church building in Morogoro region, the heart of Islam in Eastern Africa…
We are currently preparing two more faithful men with large families to be ordained and become the new missionaries in the jungle of eastern Tanzania, in the regions of Mikumi and Selous…
In the Morogoro region we have already established four new parishes with about 2,000 converts, of whom 450 belong to the Maasai tribe. It is there that we will need to build four new churches…
The speech of Rev. Metropolitan Demetrios of Irinople
“The 300 believers I found in Tanzania are now more than 50,000. Do you know why? Not because we are saints and perform miracles, but because of love.”
Excerpts from the speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrios of Irinople on the Orthodox Mission in the hall of our Brotherhood.