More than two dozen received into the Church in Rwanda

Nyamata, Bugesera District, Rwanda, February 28, 2023

Photo: exarchate-africa.ru Photo: exarchate-africa.ru     

More than two dozen people were received into the Orthodox Church at a church in Rwanda last week.

At the Church of St. John Chrysostom in Nyamata, 20 people were received by Holy Baptism, and five by Chrismation, reports the African Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Photo: exarchate-africa.ru Photo: exarchate-africa.ru     

The Sacraments were celebrated by the chairman of the Exarchate Missionary Department, Archpriest George Maximov, and the Exarchate’s Rwandan clergy Frs. Peter Bikamumpaka and Dimitri Nkundabagenzi.

In September 2016, OrthoChristian reported on the mass Baptism of 118 people in Rwanda.

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2/28/2023

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