Following on the heels of 75 catechumens being baptized in the Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda in October, more than 60 were joyfully united to Christ yesterday in the Mystery of Baptism. The Sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation were presided over by His Grace Bishop Silvester (Kisitu) of Gulu and Eastern Uganda at St. […]
81 baptized in African Metropolis of Kananga
The mystery of baptism was performed in the village of Chinshui by Metropolitan Theodosius of Kananga, accompanied by clergymen of the Metropolis. This parish has at least three hundred faithful, and on this day of Baptism another eighty-one people came to Baptism in Orthodoxy. The Bishop, the clergy and all the newly baptized, walked for […]
Patriarch of Alexandria Celebrates Mass Baptism of 350 in Tanzania
Kidamali, Tanzania, May 20, 2019 His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa arrived on a pastoral visit to Central Tanzania on Wednesday, May 15. This is his second primatial visit, having previously visited the area in 2007. He was greeted at the airport in Dares Salaam His Grace Bishop Agathonikos of […]
He’s Done It Again: Pat. Ilia Baptizes 777 in Baptismal Ceremony
His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the beloved spiritual father of all Georgia, celebrated his 58th mass infant Baptism at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi yesterday on the feast of St. George the Victorious. The Georgian primate became the Godfather to another 777 children this time, reports InterPressNews. “Christ is Risen! I congratulate you with Giorgoba [the […]
78 Apostates Return to Church in Moscow
His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrated the rite for reuniting apostates to the Church on Sunday, bringing a number of people back into the saving enclosure of the holy Orthodox Church. The service was celebrated for 78 people who had apostatized to paganism, sects, or schisms in the Church of the Mother of God […]
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