In memory of Vaios Prantzos
Vaios Prantzos (1946-2025)
Our vision for 2025
Declaration of priorities for the new year 2025
The Pioneers of Africa
By Charalampos Metallidi, board president Venerable Fathers and brothers of the Mission, Tonight at our gathering we are honoring the 60th anniversary of the founding of this historic fraternity and its offering to the command of the Lord, ”Go ye therefore, and teach all nations”. In a historical reference, our thoughts take us back to…
A letter to the Holy Apostle Chrysostom
By Charalambos Metallidis, Chairman of the Board of Directors. I leaned back a little to rest my memory on the past, my old man, and reflected… A handful of people with deeply engraved faith and love in their hearts spread the word of Christ to the ends of the earth. Sixty years of ministry and…
Fr. Nicodimos Sarikas: An unsung Missionary
80 years have passed since the death of the first missionary in sub-Saharan Africa, father Nicodimos Sarikas, the “saint of Kilimanjaro” as the natives called him. Father Nicodimos lived through the difficult years of imperialist cruelty on the African continent. He started from Smyrna in the blessed land of Ionia, whence a long and tedious…
Activity Report 2020
Dear Mission Friends and Supporters, Rejoice in the Lord! I hope and wish that despite the pandemic, you and your beloved ones are well. This year has been a difficult one for both our Fraternity and the missionary divisions in Africa and around the world, whose faith and endurance has been tested and tried countless…
In the Footsteps of a Saint
The natives are simple-hearted, kind people with a wide smile. They open their arms to embrace you, and you, the “muzungu”, can see straight into their heart, their pure, undefiled soul, the vast world of love, the creation of the Master Artist, the image of God…
Energizing the Mission
It has been years since His Eminence Metropolitan of Kinshasa started to knock on doors imploring assistance in a matter that is self-evident: the financial sustainability of the only Theological School that exists in Africa…
