St Cantoque: mission to the heretics

St Cantoque: mission to the heretics

ByConstantinos Metallidis

Saint Candock was born in Monmouthshire, Wales, in the late 5th century AD and came from a noble family. His parents, although of royal descent and economically and socially established, became monks, followed an ascetic life and are honoured by the Church as Saints. Both his mother and his spiritual father, the hermit priest Tathan, supported and guided him in his life in Christ. The Saint refused the earthly glories and titles offered to him by the world, as the child of illustrious parents, and devoted himself to spreading the Gospel to the nations, as a child of the Lord Jesus Christ…

St. Zotic: Orphanage and Mission

ByConstantinos Metallidis

He approached the king asking for gold and promised him that with it he would buy pearls and precious stones to offer to him and the empire. Constantine relented and granted Zoticus as much gold as he needed. Immediately, the Saint came to an understanding with the soldiers who were assigned to kill the lepers. Bribing them, he bought the sick, transported them to a region outside Byzantium, made tents for them to live in, and tried in every possible way to ease their pain…

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The Bishop of the newly created third diocese of Tanzania

ByThe Orthodox Missionary Fraternity

On December 11, 2016, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria presided over the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal and Cathedral Church of Saint Sabbas the Consecrated of Alexandria and during this Mass he celebrated the consecration of the new Bishop of Arusha and Central Tanzania, Mr.Agathonikos. His Grace Bishop Agathonikos (Nicolaides) of Arusha and…