Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, November 13, 2026
Photo: Romfea
The St. Athansios the Athonite Orthodox University of the Congo has been officially recognized by DOATAP, the Greek state body responsible for recognizing academic titles.
On September 18, the Board of Directors of DOATAP, the Hellenic National Academic Recognition and Information Center, recognized the university and included it in the Greek National Register of Foreign Higher Education Institutions, the school reports.
The news comes about 20 years after the university’s beginnings in the Congolese capital.
The university is located in Kinshasa’s Mont Ngafula district and serves as the academic arm of the Orthodox Mission under the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. It grew out of the Faculty of Theology, which was inaugurated on September 23, 2007, by Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria and Metropolitan Ignatios, in the presence of the Congolese Minister of Education. A Department of Computer Science was later added during the tenure of Metropolitan Nikephoros of Kinshasa, who led the Metropolis from 2010 to 2021.
The university is now led by Metropolitan Theodosios of Kinshasa, who serves as its rector. New departments of Medicine, Law, and Political Science were added this academic year.
The university’s Church of St. Athanasios the Athonite is an offering of the Great Lavra on Mt. Athos. Other backers include monasteries, missionary associations, Metropolises in Greece and abroad, the Embassy of Greece, the Hellenic Community of Kinshasa, and the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC).
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