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HOLY METROPOLIS OF NAFCRATIS

His Eminence Panteleimon,Metropolitan Of Nafcratis Most Supreme and Exarch of the Nile Region of Egypt (Arathymos) was born on the holy island of Tinos in 1974. He holds a degree from the Department of Theology of the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens and a graduate of the French Institute of Athens. He speaks English, French and Italian. He was ordained Deacon in 2000 and Priest - Archimandrite in 2001 by the late blessed Metropolitan Dorotheos I of Syros, and served as Preacher and Director of Services of the Holy Metropolis of Syros, beside His Eminence Dorotheos II ...

HOLY ARCHDIOCESE OF BURUNDI AND RWANDA

H.E. Innokentios, Metropolitan of Burundi and Rwanda. The Holy Metropolis of Burundi and Rwanda was established by Patriarchal and Synodal Decree on 6th October 2009. It includes in its jurisdiction the countries of Burundi and Rwanda. See: Bujumbura- Burundi Église Οrthodoxe de Burundi B.P. 3569 BUJUBURA BURUNDI 102030, EAST AFRICA Tel. Bishop 0025722275335 Mission 0025722257800 ...

HOLY METROPOLIS OF PELUSIUM

His Eminence Narcissos, Metropolitan of Pelusium (born Samer Gammoh), was born in 1968 in Amman, Jordan, where he completed his schooling at the National Orthodox School. He is a graduate of the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens (1988-1992) where he read for post graduate studies in the History of Dogma (1992-1994). He was tonsured a Monk on 14/2/1994 by the late Metropolitan Iakovos Ginis of Nicaea. He was ordained by the same Metropolitan as Deacon on 15/2/1994 and Presbyter by Metropolitan Bartholomaios of Megara, together with his consecration as Archimandrite on ...

HOLY ARCHDIOCESE OF CARTHAGE

His Eminence Meletios Metropolitan of Carthage (born Konstantinos Koumanis) was botn in Kalamata Messinia in 1970. He holds a degree from the Higher Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens, from the Department of Social Theology of the Theological Academy of Athens and the Catechetical School of Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece. He speaks English, Arabic and Russian. In 1996 he was tonsured a monk and ordained Deacon at the Holy Boulkanou Monastery in Messinia, by the later Metropolitan Chrysostomos Themelis of Messinia and as Priest in 2000. In 2007 he was appointed as Chairman of the ...

HOLY ARCHDIOCESE OF AKSUM

His Eminence Daniel, Metropolitan of Aksum, Most Honourable and Exarch of All Ethiopia (born Dimitrios Biazis) was born in Zakynthos in 1977. Following his schooling in his place of birth, he studied at the Η.Ε.Α. in Bellas, Ioannina and at the Theological Academy of the university of Thessalonica. He was tonsured a Monk at the Holy Monastery of Strofades and St Dionysios in Zakynthos, ordained Deacon on 25/12/1997 and Priest on 17/09/2006, by the then Metropolitan Chrysostomos II (now of Dodoni). He served as Preacher of the Holy Metropolis of Zakynthos and as Abbot of the Holy Monastery ...

HOLY ARCHDIOCESE OF KINSHASA

Η.Ε. Αrchbishop of Kinshasa Theodosios, Metropolitan of Kinshasa, Most Honourable and Exarch of Equatorial Africa, was born in Kyparissi in the Province of Trihonida, Aitoloakarnania in 1973. He completed primary school in Agrinion. He is a graduate of the Ecclesiastical Academy of Athos and holds a Degree from the Theological Academy of the Aristotelian University of Thessalonica. He also holds a Masters’ Degree from the Hellenic Open University. In 1997 he was tonsured a Monk at the historic Holy Monastery Gerokomeiou in Patras. In 1997 he was ordained Deacon and in 2002 he ...

HOLY ARCHDIOCESE OF ACCRA

His Eminence, Petros (Panagiotis Parginos), Metropolitan of Accra, was born in Johannesburg of South Africa. He matriculated from SAHETI School and studied English and Greek Literature at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and of Johannesburg. He taught the Greek Language and Culture at Saheti and was appointed Head of the Greek Department for the High School. In February of 1998 he was ordained to the Deaconate by the then Metropolitan of Cameroun, and present Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodoros II. In December of the same year, he was ordained Presbyter by the ever-memorable Metropolitan ...

HOLY METROPOLIS OF KANANGA

His Eminence Chariton Ilunga Musungayi (born Pavlos Ilunga), Metropolitan of Kananga, Most Honoured and Exarch of Equatorial Africa, was born in Kananga in the Congo (RDC) in 1974 and is the eleventh child of the twelve in the family of Evarestos and Veronica Musungayi. He is a graduate of the “LIGHT OF THE NATIONS” schools of the Missionary Center in Kananga. He studied at the Law Faculty of the UCKAN University in the same city. He is a graduate of the Theological School of the Kapodistrian University of Athens and a postgraduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in ...

HOLY ARCHDIOCESE OF NIGERIA

His Eminence Alexandros, Metropolitan of Nigeria (known in the world as George Gianniris) was born in Athens in 1960. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Pastoral and Social Theology of the University of Thessalonica. He was enrolled in the clergy of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and ordained Deacon on 1st October 1988 and Priest on 2nd October 1988. From the time of his ordination he served in the Holy Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria as Superior of the Patriarchal Church of the Holy Unmercenaries and as secretary of the Archdiocese. He issued the bilingual magazine Orthodox Approach ...

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