Bishop Nikiforos of Kinshasa

Congo (DRC)

Visit of the Patriarch of Alexandria to Congo

He warmly thanked the Orthodox Foreign Missionary Brotherhood for its fifty years of continuous work of service to the Patriarchate of Alexandria and in particular to the Holy Metropolis of Central Africa and the Orthodox Theological School in Kinshasa.

Visit to the jungle

First time they saw white. First time a bishop. They took the white bishop’s hands to see what the white man’s skin looked like. The children rejoiced, the old men gave thanks, the women and young men danced…

60 years later: Event in memory of Holy Missionaries