Belambo, Madagascar, December 24, 2025
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
Several dozen people were baptized in Madagascar earlier this month.
On December 13, at the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Belambo in southeastern Madagascar, 60 people received the washing of regeneration, reports the Russian Orthodox Church’s African Exarchate.
Photo: exarchate-africa.ru
Among them were 10 adults and 50 children. The Sacraments were celebrated by Frs. Nikolai Ramasurun and Kalvitos Raulsun.
Orthodoxy is growing quickly in Madagascar, as throughout Africa, through both the Patriarchate of Alexandria and the Russian Church’s Exarchate. In September, Patriarch Theodoros baptized 100 catechumens. In March, Metropolitan Constantine of Zaraisk, the Russian Exarch of Africa, baptized 26 Malagasy.
The Exarchate has published a prayer book and a priest’s service book in the Malagasy language in the past few years.
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