Holy dioceses

His Grace Neophytos Kongai Bishop of Nieri and Mount Kenya was born in 1970 in the village of Kesengei in the Nandi district in Kenya. He is a graduate of the “Archbishop Makarios III” Patriarchal Academy. He was ordained Deacon on 13th September 1998 and Presbyter on the 27th of the dame month by the then Metropolitan of Kenya, now of Zimbabwe and Angola, His Eminence Seraphim. He served in Parishes in Nairobi and at the Patriarchal Academy there as Deputy Head. On 27th February 2005 he was consecrated as Archimandrite by His Eminence Makarios Metropolitan of Kenya. In the same ...

His Grace Agathonikos (Nikolaidis) Bishop of Arusha and Central Tanzania was born in Giannitsa in the Pellis Province in 1964. He holds a Degree from the Educational Academy in Florina and from the Theological Faculty of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. He has been a monk of the Holy Monastery of St Dionysios of Olympos since 1986. He was ordained Deacon in 2001 and Priest in 2003. He served as Preacher in the Metropolises of Florina and Kitrous, and from 2004 to 2011 he served in various Missionary parts of Africa, following a blessing by His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and ...

His Grace Sylvester Bishop of Gulu and Eastern Uganda (born Maximos Kisitou) was born in Kampala , Uganda in 1982, where he complete his schooling. He is a graduate of the Department of Social Theology from the Theological Academy of the University of Athens. Apart from Luganda, he speaks Greek and English. He was tonsured a Monk by His Eminence Kyrillos Metropolitan of Rhodes at the Holy Monastery of the Holy Virgin of Skiadene, Rhodes, ordained Deacon on 8/9/2013 and Priest on 8/9/2014 by the same Metropolitan. Following an invitation he traveled to Alexandria in 2015, receiving the office ...

His Grace Fotios Bishop of Malawi (Hatziantoniou) was born in Nicaea Attica in 1954. After completing his schooling he graduate from the Philosophical and Theological Academy of the University of Athens. He was ordained Deacon on 22/7/1980 and Priest – Archimandrite on 9/11 of the same year, by the late Metropolitan Synesios of Kassandreia. In 2002 he came to know the Missionary work of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, offering his services at the Metropolises of Cameroon and Irinopolis. From 2010 to 2016 he served as Chancellor of the Holy Metropolis of Irinopolis. In October 2016 he ...

His Grace Prodromos Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar (Panagiotis Katsoulis), born in Sparta in 1982, where he completed his schooling. From a very young age he was spiritually tied to the Holy Monastery of the Holy Unmercenaries in Parmonas at which he was tonsured a Monk in November 2005. To assist in the Liturgical needs of the Monastery, he was ordained Deacon (01/07/2011) and then Priest (17/08/2011) by His Eminence Efstathios of Monemvasia and Sparta. In 2015 he graduated from the Department of Theology of the Theological Academy of the University of Athens. In November 2015 he ...

His Grace Markos (Theodosis) Bishop of Kisumu was born in Johannesburg, South Africa to Greek Cypriot parents. He completed his High School studies at an English School and Lyceum at the Greek School in Benoni, where he grew up and later became a Priest at the Holy Church of St Athanasios of the Hellenic Community in Benoni. By proposal of the late blessed Metropolitan Ioannis of Johannesburg and Pretoria he studied Theology at the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki with a scholarship from the Ministry of Macedonia, and graduated in the year 2002. He was ordained Deacon by the late ...

His Grace NECTARIOS Bishop of Gulu - Northern Uganda - (born Nicholas Kabuye) was born in Nkokonjeru Mukono in Central Uganda. After completing his schooling in his homeland, he studied at the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School. He holds a degree from the Theological Department of the Theological Faculty of the Athens University, with a Postgraduate specialization in Canon Law. In addition, he studied Business Administration (City University of Seattle). On 1st November 2013 His Beatitude the Primate of the nChurch of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos II, tonsured hi a Monk, at the Chapel in the ...

His Grace Chrysostomos Maidonis Bishop of Bukoba was born in 1956 in Plomari Lesvos to a naval family. He completed his schooling in Plomari where he was born and then studied at the Rizarios Higher Ecclesiastical School (1974-1976) and at the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens (1977-1981). After his studies he became a novice to the Elder Hieromonk Spyridon at the New Skete on Mount Athos, where he was tonsured a monk. On 10th August 1982 he was ordained Deacon at the Holy Monastery of St Paul on Mount Athos by Metropolitan Nicodemus of Ierissos and Priest on 27th February 1983 ...