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in the nineteenth year , about 100 clergy from africa immediately turned to us; they did not agree with this schism, the russian orthodox church, patiently waited for two years, until the patriarch of alexandria. eh, correct his mistake and withdraw his confession. he did not do this, and in december 2021, the patriarchal zahat of africa was created. it is very difficult to divide, like

the patriarchate of alexandria, they must come to their senses. when there was a split between the alexandrian patriarchate and the moscow patriarchate, we decided that now we can and want, uh, to create our parish the russian orthodox church

has ceased to delegate authority greek orthodoxy the alexandrian church since december 21, since the creation of the patriarchal headquarters of africa , the russian orthodox church. i took the spiritual nourishment of orthodox christians in africa under my omophorion and my responsibility, and more than this mission. we will not delegate to anyone. it is one thing for a dark-skinned person just on the streets of moscow, and quite another thing when you see a

clergyman in full vestments, which as well as we do, we pray, we pray partially in church slavonic. how people really treat people with love, people understand that we are not a church of one nation, we need to look at the russian orthodox church of the ecumenical bridge for a long time. as for me personally, for me the african continent, i was there for nine years to the representatives of the patriarch of moscow under the patriarch of alexandria, and i traveled almost all of africa i am familiar with the mentality i am familiar, uh, with the needs and aspirations of the african peoples. uh and i'm having fun i work there.

the lord is the first such level, megashak of russian orthodoxy after 988, the first such historical, uh, powerful breakthrough, when we take responsibility for, uh, souls, one and three billion of the population of africa , now russia and the russian orthodox church. uh in africa carries out uh, a wide-ranging mission and educational and humanitarian us for a year and four months. already 11 students are studying in st. petersburg. in theological schools, 7 students study at the moscow state pedagogical university here in moscow studying russian . in order to subsequently go to our moscow theological schools , the missionary group constantly replaces one after another. in africa, we teach russian. we

constantly call in groups of our priests from the patriarchal churches of africa here to moscow to improve their skills, we train them. we see to it that the service is performed exactly as the sagra, according to the liturgical tradition. a completely different sparkle appears in the eyes, first of all, many of they didn't go anywhere at all. and when they see, er, the beauty, the spiritual beauty of our fatherlands, numerous temples and monasteries. they have the opportunity to come into contact with the great holy prayers and intercession, by which holy russia stands like a stone, and stands firmly and powerfully.

sergiev’s father and mother are the rector of an orthodox church in the capital of tsar bangui and one of the first priests from the continent who, as part of the mission of the patriarchal exarchate of africa, received a spiritual education in russia, this story, which has become very significant in my religious life, when, at the invitation and with the blessing of metropolitan leonid, i went to moscow it was my first trip to europe, i really traveled a lot in africa and here is europe russia moscow i have very warm memories , i saw with my own eyes that moscow is

the holy land . it seemed to me that almost every 100 m, there is a temple or a monastery, we have a trip to the holy moscow land. he can spend hours telling his extended family today sharing stories about that. why serbia was baptized in moscow, i learned the story st. sergius of radonezh i was on an excursion in the monastery of father simeon the archimandrite. he told me about the life of st. sergius. i was very impressed and the metropolitan blessed me to bear his name , a great name that has great significance in russia throughout the world. we pray to sergius of radonezh, who supports us in our deeds . russia prayed a lot for you. family, prayed for our country, for our church.

orthodox christians found a new life under the auspices of the russian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate before i i made many mistakes in the liturgy, but i learned a lot. and now all services are held in accordance with the canons. i received my first philosophical and theological education in the byzantine orthodox church in cameroon, and eight years later i was sent to the tsar to found the very first orthodox parish. it was not an easy path. we were able to establish this church with god's blessing, but unfortunately, it was not a canonical church, and we began to look for a canonical one, and thank god with his blessing. today i am orthodox the priest of the house of the moscow patriarchate and i am very happy about this.

first of all, it was necessary to strengthen the people. uh , spiritually support them and, uh, express to them words not just of support, but also of gratitude for the fact that they are relatively many of them recently converted to orthodoxy were completely. we have young african priests. they are so tight. uh stood uh on the canons. e, orthodoxy of universal orthodoxy and understood that their patriarch was leading them into schism. and they courageously declared their disagreement. the situation is very split heavy it separates the churches. today, those who went to askism, like the patriarchate of alexandria and the patriarchate of constantinople,

they should come to their senses. this is our desire, for which we pray, every day we pray for peace. the french in 1960 practically did not stop armed conflicts when shooting from all kinds, we were forced to close the church in order to preach?

once a shell was fired at our church , part of vov wished that it did not hit the building itself, landed right behind our wall were rebels in the village of kiantibalaki, who fought with government troops with peacekeepers in minuska and sangaris. so, it was a war in which we were victims. myself once i was taken hostage , the rebels needed my car to transfer their fighters there were moments when the muzzle of a machine gun was pointed at me and threatened with murder, these are bad memories. i wouldn't like to talk about it anymore. i am a man of god, i can only forgive. i forgave it and continued to pray. for peace for our country, its army and leader, we

we pray that jesus christ will give us peace, that the church will prosper, and we can continue to preach the gospel minus country, which gives freedom to all confessions. we have catholics, who are in the majority here, there are protestants and muslims, even buddhists. there are those who also call themselves orthodox. they pull the blanket over themselves, but they do not really belong to true apostolic succession and are not canonical. they resort to alji to invite people into their communities. this is a problem. she needs to be decided. the rest of our strength lies in respecting the choice of one and all. numerous military and political crises people feel lost

, many have no job or a job that allows you to buy just a little bit of bread. we have a lot of young people who do not work, neither competently, and they pose a great danger to society ; they often arrange brawls and our task here is to invite orthodox christians to church and offer them to drink, participate in youth movements, and give up what hurts the inhabitants of the kingdom. good morning loved. here we have children aged 3 to 5 years. they speak four languages ​​in sangon french english. it is such a blessing

that these children have the opportunity to study and join religion, and we say thank you very much, his eminence metropolitan. leonid thanks to the donations of the orthodox, but they were able to equip this building for a school. and now our children are happy to learn russian little by little. from the bottom of my heart, i have great respect for children. i have always wanted to work with them. and the children also love me in moscow a lot of attention from children. i did, of course, but i think that there is something else that naturally connects me with the children i try my best. i do farming. i myself have 10 children, only

one of them is my own, the rest are adopted. some have parents who died of disease and others died in the war, but we try not to tell them that they have no parents. i am their parents. they call me dad, me and dad, there used to be 27 children in our family. someone grew up, someone went their own way , the younger ones remained very a good spiritual education, but it’s hard for me to be alone in a vast country in which we really need priests of people who diligently sing in the choir with all their hearts help me during the service and who also want to enter russian theological seminaries. and we really

hope that we will receive this blessing. a new loss is russia there and africa somewhere, and where is this split, what can africans understand there? this is a very pernicious , uh, delusion, and i will tell you why it is because to africans the same greeks are the same europeans the same representatives of the collective west still treat their colonies like e and occupy there with nothing else than colonialism, let's call a spade a spade. we said we don't want anything from you. we really don't need anything. if you want to hear the truth about christ, we are ready to bring it to you. we

're doing missionary work there now. you have no idea how low the level of knowledge about christianity is in general in general. i’m not talking about point orthodoxy there anymore, because so far our percentage, relative to 1.3 billion of the population, orthodoxy is relatively small. i think we are now working with the communities that were. let's name them. uh, about the orthodox. yes, they had certain, uh , traditions, certain fellowship, but, nevertheless, the fullness of orthodoxy in christ, uh, the dogmatism of the canon. and most importantly , they did not have the correct equipsiology, that is, the doctrine of salvation.

from central africa we move to the eastern part of the continent in the savannah of tanzania we in the masai tribe are a unique semi-nomadic people, ignoring the temptation of civilization. they remain faithful to age-old traditions.

this drawing on my face is part of our culture, so everyone else can understand that i belong to the masai tribe. the masai conquer with their beauty , neatly shaved heads, thin physique, beaded jewelry, bright capes and sticks in the hands of men, reminiscent of a copy of incredibly bright and original. and it seems that here we look like savages white guests from russia eagerly looking at their beauty. of our

lives today, the diet of the tribe, the masai is mixed, because we already belong to another generation. they often come on excursions, but you can’t get to this tribe being a tourist. they agreed to receive us, because we are accompanied by orthodox priests who respect

the traditions of the acquaintance tribe. we start with dancing. for us it is a symbol of happiness. sometimes it matters. one of these ceremonies we have during the initiation rite, when a boy becomes a man and is initiated into the war. but

what we're dancing tonight is a welcome dance. this is how we welcome guests. this is a sign of our respect. matchmaking is considered the one a man who jumps higher is a more enduring warrior and hunter. thanks to the activities of greek priests , some maasai converted to orthodoxy, combining a tribal way of life with christian

religious traditions. this village is interesting to us because the orthodox masses living here, this glade under a large sprawling tree - this is a local temple. people gather here and very soon the service will begin, having begun to search for a place for the service. we realized that renting a separate house would cost. we are very precious then it became clear to us that we could do a very good woodworking service. yes, this excludes the meeting during the rains, but in the heat of its branches create a pleasant shade for us , we place icons with the image of christ and the virgin here on the tree. we put around which people gather, like at an altar.

it must be bad for him aqua steam banana, friday. we are on sundays. i visit the people of this village for church services and instruct them in matters of faith, on wednesday. we are saved. we analyze stories from the old testament on friday. reading the gospel on sundays a divine liturgy is held, again due to the peculiarities of the local climate, for example, due to rains, it is not always possible to hold scheduled meetings on time. maasai the name of the tribe is translated as speaking the maasai language, they mostly speak only massai. and we often read prayers in dry. sometimes. it can be very difficult to understand this year. we would like to involve some representatives of the tribe in translating prayers into their language, then it would be easier for them to understand the essence of the orthodox

texts, sermons, about which he convinced people that the greek church had departed from divine law. the russian orthodox church follows the right path. and now we support it. when the missionaries of the greek church arrived in our area, they did not promise to build a church for us, a hospital and a school. however , later their promises were never fulfilled, they built only the church and did not bother with the issues of its further maintenance. the transition to the bosom of the moscow patriarchate turned out for the inhabitants of this villages a serious communal economic dispute. we used one well for

the community, however, when i joined the russian orthodox church with my supporters, fellow villagers fenced themselves off from us and we found ourselves without access to clean drinking water, which was our problem. we described in an appeal to vladyka and told him that a fellow village belonging to a clone of the greek church and oppressing us did not want us to be able to use water from the well. well , of course, all this does not lend itself to any comprehension in terms of. yes, and it's far away everything is far from christianity. it's far from moral. and here it’s even far from some ethical standards, when, on the contrary, we know all our lives that africa needs food in pure drinking water, take it and say that oh, yours, you are now e russian to the russians left. but now, let the russians give you water, but the russians gave you water. we got it done in a month and a half. they have their own water source. moreover, we do not

divide orthodox people there and or non- orthodox, if there are other settlements nearby, which also come and come and recruit water from this pure spring. e of drinking water from this deep-water well, which we have ennobled, which is now serving here for the benefit of people, thank god, for a little over a year we have been actively developing our activities at the moment we are present, 21. country, tens and hundreds of thousands follow us . er people, we are actively developing our mission in terms of humanitarian presence in terms of educational presence hmm and uh, separate, of course. it is necessary to say the words that at the moment russia has understood that africa is a not so distant continent and above all. it is close to instantaneous for us, africans are also largely conservative.