The Eastern Orthodox Presence in Africa

Modern Eastern Orthodoxy has diverse roots in Africa. Beyond the activity of the older Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and the early twentieth-century Greek diaspora communities on the continent, Eastern Orthodoxy was indirectly spread since the 1920s through the African Orthodox Church (AOC) from the US and the initiative of anti-colonial African activists. This article sheds light on this unique and unexpected development (part I) and provides an insight into the current life of the local Orthodox Churches in East Africa (in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania), one of the most vital area of the Orthodoxy in Africa (part II)

Christianity · Diaspora · Local church · Middle East · Orthodoxy · African history and culture analysis · Christian Theology and Mission · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies