Metropolitan of Kampala Jonah reposes in the Lord
The Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa on Sunday announced the repose in the Lord of the Metropolitan of Kampala, Jonah.
The late Metropolitan reposed on Sunday at a central Athens hospital after a lengthy illness.
In an announcement, the Patriarchate of Alexandria emphasized that Metropolitan Johan was a great Hierarch of the Alexandrian Throne, a tireless worker and fighter for the spread of the Gospel in Africa.
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodore II, performed a Trisagion service for the repose of the soul of the late Metropolitan.
The late Metropolitan of Kampala and Exarch of all Uganda was born in 1945 in Uganda. He studied at the Ecclesiastical School of Crete in the 1960s, and was a graduate of University of Athens’ schools of theology and philosophy. Jonah was ordained a deacon in 1981 and a presbyter in 1982.
A video has been posted today by the Orthodoxia news agency with an exclusive interview the late Metropolitan had given in November 2019.
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