Bishop Dimitrios of Irinoupolis

Diocese of Irinoupolis

Fr. Nicodemus Sarikas Mission Center

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

Diocese of Irinoupolis

Saint James in Tanzania

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!

Another Orthodox church is being built

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…

A paschal beginning

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…

Diocese of Irinoupolis

Go through Tanzania and help us

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…

Mission in Eastern Tanzania

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.”

Orthodoxy in Tanzania

Excerpts from the speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrios of Irinople on the Orthodox Mission in the hall of our Brotherhood.

60 years later: Event in memory of Holy Missionaries