"This is my second published book that I pray you will find it to be a very useful scientific research tool for Orthodox Christian Mission theology, historical and canonical research and teaching material not only for East Africa but for Africa in general."
Elekiah Andago
In the Orthodox Vineyard of Africa
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Father Anastasios Kihali provides a
complete historical analysis of how the African Orthodox Church was
founded in East Africa through the early movements under British rule in
the early 1900s until the later Greek missionary movements, with focus
on the nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The purpose of this
research study is to provide a vital scientific tool into the AOC
Mission in Africa, with an overview of its background and birth, its
mission history, and the current issues and canonical challenges
impeding the growth of Orthodoxy in Africa.
It is the sincere hope of
Father Anastasios Kihali that this extensive and groundbreaking work
will lead the Orthodox peoples of Africa into a constructive dialogue
with one another regarding the current state of the Orthodox Ecclesia.
From personal experience and witness through his own missionary work in
Albania, Fr. Anastasios suggests that Albania's revival of Orthodoxy in
the early 1990s can serve as a model for missionary success in East
Africa.
Father Anastasios is therefore a much-needed voice crying in the
wilderness for Orthodoxy in the 21st Century, and the reader will find
that many solutions proposed to the current issues are also equally
applicable to other Diasporas and Missions such as those within the
Americas.
Challenges Facing the Orthodox Church Movements in East Africa: A Historical and Canonical Survey
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Fr. Anastasios Elekiah Andago Kihali investigates the nature and origin
of the problems in the history of the Orthodox Church in East Africa,
specifically the history and problems up to the present day with an
emphasis on nation of Kenya. This work is not just a mere chronology of
the history of the Orthodox Church in East Africa, but rather, it looks
into the genesis of its past and present historical canonical problems.
Fr. Anastasios’s primary goal and hope of this research is that it will
lead the Orthodox peoples of East Africa toward a constructive dialogue
with each other regarding the state of the Church there today. Then
perhaps, this discussion will lead the East Africans into
self-understanding as well as the discovery of the motive behind the
problems that remain today. Finally, solutions are proposed to some of
the existing church governance problems, with a viable administrative
structure which would provide a means of moving East Africans forward to
a fruitful Twenty-First Century harvest.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Elekiah Andago Kihali (the Very Rev.
Archimandrite Anastasios) is a Kenyan Orthodox archimandrite priest
under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria serving in the
Church of Kenya. He received his Master of Divinity (M. Div.) in 1993,
with Distinction and also his Theology Master (Th. M) 2002 in Canon Law
and History with high Distinction, from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School
of Theology in Brookline Massachusetts. In addition, he received his
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2009, in History and Missiology from the
Aristotelean State University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Hope for the Kikuyu (Kenya) / "The caves along the Tana River became the refuge for freedom fighters..." The Kikuyu tribe proclaimed the Metropolitan of Nairobi as their “Elder”
Natives Africans bishops in the Orthodox Church
An Orthodox Christian parish in Turkana desert
Fr Athanasius Akunda, Orthodox dialogue with Bunyore culture
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African Initiated Churches in Search of Orthodoxy...
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