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.

Soon news from the Metropolis of Central Africa

1. Courses via video teaching at the Faculty of Theology continue. New University professors have taught and others continue to teach. Our new graduates, our new theologians, are receiving their degrees in a month and are ready to serve the church. 2. In the town of Gungu, 700 kilometers southwest of Kinshasa, work continues on

The first fruits of the Theological School

The year 2012 was dedicated by our Metropolis to the fortieth anniversary of the departure of the late Fr Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, the first missionary of Congo and spiritual founder of the Brotherhood of Orthodox Foreign Mission. Thus, with the embassies of Fr. Chrysostomos, this year began with a special blessing for the Theological School of

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…

Two tears of complaint and the Virgin Mary answered us

Your Eminence, the Virgin Mary sends you a gift, a Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. You must begin immediately The lesson of Rhetoric-Catechetics was progressing, it was almost time to end, when the questions from the first year students of the first year of the Theological School “St. Athanasius of Athos” of

60 years later: Event in memory of Holy Missionaries