Kenya Orthodox

The Orthodox Church in Kenya was founded in the mid-20th century, Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus. Currently, Kenya has about hundreds of Orthodox churches and more than 620 thousand Orthodox Christians. Many Kenyan villages do not even have grocery stores or schools, but there is a church. They are mostly mud. The priests in these villages are very poor, many are barefoot and in tattered old vestments. But despite the poverty of the Church are always full of people, especially during the arrival of the bishop. Orthodox Christians in Kenya met their hierarch traditional dances and songs.

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2. The ordination by Archimandrite Matthew Bishop of Kenya. Bishop Gerontius, Matthew Bishop, Metropolitan Kirik.



3. The altar during the Liturgy headed by Metropolitan Macarius.



4. Church choir Riruty in seminary church.



5. seminarian Maasai have Riruty Orthodox Church.



6. "God is all-powerful." Inscriptions like this, can often be found in transport across Kenya.



7. The Church in Central Kenya.



8. Meeting of the bishop in the African



9. Prayer.



10. Sermon priest.



11. The African "bell tower".



12. Metropolitan Macarius dancing with his parishioners.



13. Parishioners village Kisengei meet the bishop.



14. The altar boy.



15. A boy with a censer.



16. Kenyan Orthodox priest during the service.



17. Matthew Bishop with the clergy and parishioners.



18. The ordination of Archimandrite Matthew Bishop of Kenya. Bishop Matthew says the sermon.



19. The procession around the new temple.



20. After the consecration of the newly built temple. Matthew Bishop, the Primate of the Orthodox Church, Yixing Kenya o.Foty (Kenya) and o.Agafokly (Crete) with the parishioners and pilgrims Kenyans Cypriots.



21. Matthew Bishop, the Primate of the CPI Kenya, concelebrated by priests Agathokles Cyprus, sanctifies the throne.



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