With simplicity but also with ecclesiastical splendor and with the wishes and blessings of H.D.B. Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, the new Deacon of the Holy Metropolis of Irinoupolis Fr. Paschalios Mayuma was ordained Elder by His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitrios.of Irinoupolis. It is worth emphasizing that Fr. Paschalios is
With ecclesiastical magnificence but also simplicity, as is customary in Africa, and with the blessings of HDB Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the until recently Deacon of the Holy Metropolis of Irinoupolis Fr. Elias Katasiko, was ordained Elder by His Eminence Demetrius of Irinoupolis. It is worth stressing that Fr.
Like every August, the 15 -day seminar of catechetical sessions was held this year, focusing not only on simple issues of our faith, which form the foundation and the core of the two thousand -year -old history of the Orthodox Church, but also on the Holy Fathers’ experience. Once again, the seminar was hosted by
By the grace of God and with the wishes of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodore II, His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrius of Irinoupolis begins the construction of another Mission Center, the third in Tanzania after Iringa in Central Tanzania and Morogoro in Eastern Tanzania. At the large site of the Holy
Very early in the morning, hundreds of students began to arrive at the newly built school to attend the consecration ceremony of the first Orthodox school in Morogoro Prefecture, in a new fruitful missionary effort in eastern Tanzania, where the majority of the inhabitants are Muslims!
Today the Orthodox Church has 40 priests in Tanzania
Since early Monday morning, a large number of people had begun to arrive, in order to attend the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the third Orthodox church building in Morogoro region, the heart of Islam in Eastern Africa…
We are currently preparing two more faithful men with large families to be ordained and become the new missionaries in the jungle of eastern Tanzania, in the regions of Mikumi and Selous…
In the Morogoro region we have already established four new parishes with about 2,000 converts, of whom 450 belong to the Maasai tribe. It is there that we will need to build four new churches…
Excerpts from the speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Demetrios of Irinople on the Orthodox Mission in the hall of our Brotherhood.
