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Eritreans to help Uganda build its Orthodox Cathedral
Monday, May 09, 2022
BY: STEPHEN OTAGE
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/n ... al-3808960
What you need to know:
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Building a Cathedral is viewed as a stepping stone in fostering unity among the Orthodox faithful.
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The Ugandan Orthodox Church has described the newly commissioned Eritrean Orthodox Cathedral in Uganda as a big boost to the faith.
Speaking at the commissioning of the St Gabrielle Cathedral in Kansanga on Sunday, on the Lukuli-Nsambya Road in Makindye Division, Rev
Archimandrite Constantine Mbonabingi, the vicar of the Holy Metropolis of Kampala, said the Ugandan Orthodox community is working together with the Eritrean Orthodox community in development projects.
This [Cathedral] is a big boost to the Orthodox Church because the population has increased. The Eritrean Orthodox community is going to help us also build our own Cathedral in Uganda,
he said.
Mr
Mohammed Sulieman Ahmed, the Eritrean ambassador, said the commissioning of the Church in Kampala is an indication that Eritreans feel at home
Eritreans came to Uganda in 2006, you do not see this kind of church in the rest of Africa, it is very unique. Wherever Eritreans go, the first thing they do is to build a Cathedral. We do have in Juba, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, US, and Europe. The church is a gathering place for all Eritreans world wide,
he said.
Mr
Tesfalem Gerahtu, the liaison officer for the Eritrean community in Kampala, said the idea of constructing the Church started in 2006 when the Eritrean population in the country was still very low.
He said when they approached the late Archbishop
Jona Lwanga of the Orthodox Church and requested to pray together, they were given a primary school classroom.
After one month, we were given another classroom for praying. After six months, we were given land at Lubya Hill and we have been using that land since then without paying a single coin. Today with this Church, we bought our own land and built this Church which has a sitting capacity of between two and three thousand people,
he said.
He added that they also plan to build schools near the Cathedral and they will be using the Ugandan curriculum. They also intend to intensify the preaching of the Orthodox faith in the country using youth.
Building more Orthodox Churches
In February, the Orthodox Church indicated that more places of worship will be opened in the country under the leadership of Archbishop
Jeronymos Muzeeyi.
Bishop
Nektarios Lubega, the Orthodox Vicar of Africa and Bishop of Kampala, announced the countrywide opening of more Orthodx churches while opening a new church in Jinja.
The newly-opened Nativity Orthodox Church is on Kyabazinga
Road, 11 kilometres off Jinja-Kamuli, highway. The new head of the Orthodox Church, Archbishop Muzeeyi, was consecrated at St Nicholas Church, Namungoona, near Kampala.
He became the third Orthodox leader in Uganda after his immediate predecessor, Jona Lwanga, who died last September, and
Theodros Nankyama who died in 1997.
About 500,000 Ugandans claim Orthodox baptism.
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On May 8, 1998 Abba Philipos (Filipos) was ordained Patriarch of the Eritrean Tewahdo Orthodox Church by Pope Shenouda III in Cairo, Egypt. In April 1998, Abba Philipos (Filipos) was chosen as the first Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church.
On June 19, 1994, Pope Shenouda III ordained 5 of the first new bishops of Eritrea in Cairo. This was preceded by an appeal, in July 1993, by Eritrean bishops to Pope Shenouda to obtain separation from Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church.
In Feb. 1994, an Agreement was signed in Addis Ababa, that affirmed the autocephalous status of both the Eritrea|n & Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo churches.
The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church was formally founded in 329 AD under the fatherhood of St Frumentius (Abba Selama) the first bishop assigned by St Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria. There are 1500 Orthodox Tewahdo churches & 22 monasteries, in Eritrea.
Abune Libanos, Debre Sina & Debra Bizen are the prominent & oldest monasteries in the country. Abune Libanos (Aba Meta’e) Monastery Ham in Tsorona, was established by Abune Libanos who traveled from Lebanon to Eritrea in 463-260 G.C & was the first to translate the Book of Matthew from Greek to Geez.
History of Eritreaታሪኽ ኤርትራ.تاريخ إريتريا: @Erihistory