Sixty years of missionary ministry and service – people who loved their fellow man and put into practice the message of the Lord “Going forth, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them the things which I have inspired…
My dear brothers and children in Christ, partners of the Missionary Ministry of the Holy Diocese of Malawi, Hail in the Lord. With much Love and appreciation, I would first of all, on the completion of sixty years since the foundation of your Fraternity, I would like to express my humble High Priestly wishes, as…
60 years of continuous giving and love. 60 years of peace to the missionaries of Africa, Asia, Oceania, all over the world. 60 years next to our fellow human beings in pain. Next to the poor, the homeless, the sick and the imprisoned. Next to the children of Africa with their beautiful and meaningful expressive…
My dear brothers, Once again I am contacting you to make you part of the missionary activities and works that with your love are being carried out in the Holy Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania. I am pleased to announce that the construction of the Church of Our Lady in the city of Arusha…
Words seem poor to express our gratitude for the long-standing and multidimensional offer of the Brotherhood of Orthodox Foreign Missionary Work of Thessaloniki to the missions all over the world. In the sixty years of operation, having as spiritual founder the blessed and pioneering missionary Archimandrite Fr. Chrysostomos Papasartopoulos and the blessed physician Mr. Panagiotis…
The youth camp of our Metropolis was a great success again this year. More than 150 children participated in various activities – educational (catechism, social formation), liturgical, cultural. The congregation of our Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Lord in Abidjan also experienced happy moments as on Sunday 22 October, our Chaplain and Archpriest Commissioner…
Orthodoxy, with much toil and tireless efforts, has now touched the origins of the great and vast Equateur of Africa. How long our brethren there had been waiting for the beneficial and redemptive presence of the ancient Church, the Orthodox Church of Christ. How long they have waited for the sparkling spiritual water of Truth,…
In 1963 the Brotherhood of Orthodox Foreign Mission was founded under the name “Friends of Uganda”. We are talking about the time when the African states were then young countries, having just received their independence. Uganda was one year old, having received its independence in 1962. It was in the context of independence that the…
These days we had the graduation of the young children of our primary school. A glorious ceremony with holy water for the graduating children. Present were the children’s “parents” or friends to celebrate this pleasant and unique event for their age. Joys and songs, speeches and poems. They thanked me for the fact that the…
It was wonderful, blessed and hopeful that three missionaries from Thessaloniki, members of the Orthodox Foreign Missionary Brotherhood, came to Fiji for 20 days and offered all of themselves for the relief and evangelization of our newly converted brothers and sisters. Our good teacher, Mrs. Angeliki, the excellent ophthalmologist Mrs. Katerina and the well-known to…
