“Greek Orthodox Christian Church - Birmingham, Alabama”

Photography Credits: Beth Hontzas - Music: Presbytera Katerina Makiej






Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas

Carrying the Helpless
March 31, 2024

- Bishop Neophytos Kongai -


This Sunday, His Grace Bishop Neophytos Kongai, Bishop of Kenya, shares about Orthodoxy in Kenya and what we can do to support his diocese. 

In today’s Gospel reading, we hear about the men who lowered the paralyzed man through a roof to be healed by Christ. His Grace Bishop Neophytos Kongai encourages us to be like those men, showing the love of Christ to the helpless and carrying them to healing. He shares the struggles of those in Kenya, and asks us to support his diocese in providing food, shelter, clothing, education, and a place of worship for the people there.



His Grace Bishop Neophytos was born in 1970 in Kesengei village, Nandi district, Kenya. He holds a degree from the “Archbishop Makarios III” Patriarchal Academy in Ke...[more]
“Greek Orthodox Christian Church - Birmingham, Alabama”

Photography Credits: Beth Hontzas - Music: Presbytera Katerina Makiej

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His Grace Bishop Neophytos was born in 1970 in Kesengei village, Nandi district, Kenya. He holds a degree from the “Archbishop Makarios III” Patriarchal Academy in Kenya. His Grace was ordained to the Holy Diaconate on September 13, 1998, and to the Holy Priesthood two weeks later, on September 27, 1998, by then-Metropolitan Seraphim of Kenya, now of Zimbabwe and Angola. He served as the Deputy principal at the patriarchal academy and served many parishes in Nairobi. In the year 2005 he was awarded a Master of Theological Studies and a Master of Theology from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. On 27th of February 2005 he was consecrated Archimandrite by His Eminence Makarios of Kenya. In 2007 he was tonsured a monk at the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration in Veroia. He is a candidate for a Doctorate in Pastoral Theology, with a scholarship from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. On 26 November 2014, proposed by His Beatitude, he was elected by the Holy Synod as Auxiliary Bishop of the once brilliant Diocese of Nitria. In 2015, His Grace was unanimously elected as the first bishop of the Diocese of Nyeri and Mount Kenya.