The weekend of 7-10 December was a historic occasion for Orthodoxy in Southern Africa, with the first diocesan youth conference for the Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria, and the first monastic tonsuring of a South African monk to take place in South Africa, when the novice Brother Matthew was tonsured as the Monk Seraphim, and was ordained deacon.
The newly-tonsured Hierodeacon Seraphim with His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa
Wahrlich ein historisches Eregniss.
Der vollständige Bericht mit sehr schönen Fotos ist unter folgendem Link zu finden:
http://methodius.livejournal.com/59807.html
Auf viele Jahre, v. Seraphim!
