Actor Tom Hanks visits Orthodox church in Antarctica

Source: Foma

February 15, 2016

    

Famous actor Tom Hanks visited the Orthodox church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Antarctica at the Russian polar station “Bellingshausen” on Waterloo Island, Deacon Maxim Gerb, a cleric of the church in Antarctica, told the journal Foma.

“Many interesting people visit our church, including Tom Hanks who was recently sailing past our island on a yacht. He is a very open and friendly person. After he lit some candles I suggested to him to climb up to the bell tower, so I could attest that Forrest Gump was in Antarctica and can now ring bells pretty well,” commented Deacon Maxim on the actor’s visit, in his account of the life of the Orthodox community in Antarctica.

Translated by Jesse Dominick

Foma

2/16/2016

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Priest Constantine Kravtsov, Hieromonk Pavel (Gelyastanov)
What do we know about the sixth continent other than that it is the abode of penguins and polar explorers, and that endless icebergs move around its shores? The traveller who finds himself, not even on the continent, but at its threshold on one of its islands, feels like he’s on another planet. Russian church to be consecrated in Antarctica Russian church to be consecrated in Antarctica Russian church to be consecrated in Antarctica Russian church to be consecrated in Antarctica
An expedition is traveling from Moscow to Antarctica with the purpose of the great consecration of the southernmost Russian Orthodox church on Earth. Ukrainians to build an Orthodox church in Antarctica Ukrainians to build an Orthodox church in Antarctica Ukrainians to build an Orthodox church in Antarctica Ukrainians to build an Orthodox church in Antarctica
A chapel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be built in Antarctica this spring.
Comments
Wusylko Michael6/14/2020 5:24 am
God bless the Russian Orthodox Church for bringing His home to every corner of earth!! Christ is risen!! In all the world. God bless Tom for his faith in Christ. We all have short comings in our lives. God forgives. Protodeacon Michael Wusylko, St. Alexander Nevsky Pittsburgh Pa.
Mandy Howe2/24/2019 5:47 pm
Tom Hanks is a known FreeMason!!!
Elizabeth Pease2/17/2016 10:01 pm
Ms. Wilson is Bulgarian and Greek from her parents. That would seem to me to indicate she was brought up Greek Orthodox. Mr. Hanks probably converted before he married her, and that is why he has questionable views about the Orthodox Church.
d. Barnabas2/16/2016 5:47 pm
It should be noted that both Tom Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, are Orthodox Christians, who attend Saint Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church in Los Angeles, athough some of his personal views are questionable (http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2009/05/orthodoxy-of-tom-hanks.html).

Greetings in XC,
d. Barnabas
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