Iringa Region, Tanzania, August 12, 2024
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
Thanks to the efforts of a student of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, the daily cycle of services has been translated and published in Swahili.
The work was undertaken by Archimandrite Zachariah (Mulingua) from Tanzania, and the books were published in Kursk, reports the African Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The daily cycle of services includes Vespers, Small Compline, Midnight Office, Matins, First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, the Divine Liturgy, and Ninth Hour.
Earlier this month, Fr. Zachariah returned to Tanzania and distributed the publication at the St. Nicholas Church in the Iringa Region and the Kisarave Educational Center.
Thus, the Tanzanian clergy and parishioners of the African Exarchate were able to celebrate the cycle of services in Swahili for the first time.
Meanwhile, in late 2020, the Missionary Home Society, based at the Monastery of St. Dionysios in Olympus, Greece, announced that the most necessary liturgical texts, including the Menaion, the Octoechos, the Book of Hours, the Book of Needs, and many others were being translated into Swahili. At that time, several liturgical texts had already been translated, including the Divine Liturgy, the Paraklesis, the Small Compline, and the Salutations of the Theotokos.
The Exarchate’s Fr. Zachariah also translated the Gospel of Mark with Patristic commentary, which was published in the spring.
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