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<H1>The Orthodox Church of St Nicholas of Japan</h1>
<b>156 Fulham Road<br>
Brixton<br>
Johannesburg, Gauteng <br>
South Africa<br>
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<STRONG>We are a parish of the Orthodox Church, under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, which traces its history back to AD 65, when St Mark the Evangelist brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to africa, and planted the Church in Alexandria, Egypt.</STRONG><P>
You have just found our cyberspace entrance, but we hope that if you are in Gauteng you will find our other entrances as well.<P>
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Please note that this page now has a
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mirror site</a> which is updated more frequently than this one.<P>
Our parish is mainly an English-speaking one, and we are not tied to any single one of the ethnic traditions of Orthodoxy.
Our services are mostly in English, though we occasionally use Greek,
Slavonic, Afrikaans and other languages as well. Those who attend the
services are South Africans of various ethnic backgrounds (Afrikaans, English, Sotho),
and also of Greek, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Syrian, Lebanese
and Ethiopian origin. All are welcome!<P>
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<A NAME="services"><H2>Services</H2></A>
<H3>Divine Liturgy</H3>
<STRONG>9:30 am on Sundays - preceded by Matins at 8:30</STRONG><P>
On other festivals the times of services will be announced. Please
contact the<A HREF="#priest"> parish priest</A> for more details.
<H3>Vespers</H3>
<STRONG>6:30 pm on Saturdays</STRONG><P>
On the eves of great feasts the Vigil (Vespers, Litiya, Orthros)
is served.
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<A NAME="where"><H2>Where are we?</H2></A>
<H3>Physical address</H3>
The church is at <STRONG>156 Fulham Road, Brixton,
Johannesburg</STRONG>, about a block and a half west of the Brixton
broadcasting tower, on the hill above the SABC offices in Auckland
Park.<P>
<H3>Postal Address</H3>
The Parish postal address is:<P>
<STRONG>Church of St Nicholas of Japan<BR>
PO Box 1148<BR>
Melville<BR>
2109 South Africa<BR></STRONG>
<A NAME="priest"><H3>Parish Priest</H3></A>
Father Mircea Corpodean<P>
Tel: 011-453-4514 (home) 082-549-8033 (cell)<P>
Rectory:<P>
36 Sixth Avenue<BR>
Edenvale<BR>
1609 South Africa<P>
<H4>Churchwarden</H4>
<A HREF="mailto:jammine@global.co.za">Dr Azar Jammine</a><BR>
Tel:
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<H4>Chairman</h4>
<A HREF="mailto:designjb@iafrica.com">Mrs Carol Hamman</A><P>
Tel: 011-659-4690<BR>
Cell: 083-457-3932<P>
<H5>Other parish council members</h5>
<A HREF="mailto:mariosjoseph@unn.unisys.com">Mr Marios Joseph</a><BR>
Tel: 012-653-3725 <P>
Brian & Cathy MacDonald<BR>
Tel: 082-429-0444<P>
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<A NAME="links"><A NAME="links"><H2>Links to other places</H2></A>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/cecilian/777/">Christian Network
Links for Africa</A> - a guide to Web pages and other network links relating to Christianity in Africa, including links to other
Orthodox sites in Africa and overseas</li>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/orthlink.htm">
The Orthodox Links Page</a> - a comprehensive list of links to
Orthodox web sites around the world
<LI><A HREF="http://www.goarch.org/">Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
of North and South America</A> (GOANSA). The Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of North and South America has a Web site with
links to many other Orthodox Web
sites, and runs the ACCESS communications ministry
<LI><A HREF="http://www.ocf.org/">The Orthodox Christian
Foundation</A> - offers a lot of other information about the
Orthodox Christian faith, and publishes <CITE>The Christian Activist</CITE>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/penpals.htm">
Orthodox Christian Penfriends Club</A> -
a scheme to help Orthodox Christians to correspond with people in
other countries</li>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.oca.org">Orthodox Church in
America</A> (OCA) News of the Orthodox Church in America, parish
news, directory of parishes, monasteries etc.</li>
<LI><A HREF="http://orthodoxy.faithweb.com/">Orthodox Mission Pages</A>
- news about Orthodox mission in Southern Africa, with articles on questions that non-Orthodox often ask about Orthodox Christianity. The contact person
is <A HREF="mailto:hayesstw@yahoo.com">Methodius Hayes</A>.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/russia.htm">A
trip to Russia</a> - Stephen Hayes, the chairman of the Society of
St Nicholas of Japan, visited Russia to gather research material for a
thesis on Orthodox mission methods. This page is a description of the
trip, illustrated with photos.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.orthodoxy.faithweb.com/st_nick.htm">Society of St Nicholas
of Japan</A> - an Orthodox mission society in Southern Africa that
encourages Orthodox Christians to participate in the global mission
of the Church. The Society of St Nicholas was reponsible for starting
the Church of St Nicholas of Japan, and this page gives some of the
early history of the parish as well as of the society. The Society
of St Nicholas sells and distributes Orthodox Christian literature
in Southern Africa. Contact
person: <A HREF="mailto:hayesstw@yashoo.com">
Stephen Hayes</A></li>
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<A NAME="more"><H2>More about us</H2></A>
In 1987 a group of Orthodox Christians in South Africa formed
the <A HREF="http://www.ocf.org/st_nick.htm">Society of St Nicholas
of Japan</A> to promote mission and evangelism among Orthodox
Christians, and to make Orthodox Christianity better known and more
welcoming to non-Orthodox people. The society invited
Fr Chrysostom Frank, a priest who had served in South Africa before,
to return as its chaplain, and formed a small worshipping community
that used English in the Divine Liturgy. A couple of years later the
community was strong enough to become a parish, independent of the
society, and, after three years of worshipping in borrowed halls and
chapels, bought an old Protestant church building in Brixton,
Johannesburg, and converted it for Orthodox use. In 1996 Fr Chrysostom
Frank left the Orthodox Church and joined the Roman Catholic Church.
Clergy from neighbouring parishes helped with the celebration of the
Divine Liturgy during 1997, while the parish was without a
permanent priest. Fr Bert Olechnowicz came in December 1997, and returned to the USA at the beginning of 2002, and the [present priest is Fr Mircea Corpodean, from Romania.
<P>The parish has recently started a daughter parish at Eldorado Park, south of Johannesburg, which is Afrikaans-speaking, and the priest there is Fr Jacobus van der Riet, who became Orthodox in St Nicholas Parish, and studied for the priesthood at St Tikhon's Theological Seminary in the USA.
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The ikons on the ikonostasis were painted by a parishioner, Cathy
McDonald, who also painted many of the ikons on the church walls.
Other parishioners have also painted some of the ikons. The music
in the services is mainly Slavonic, though with some hymns sung to
Byantine and other melodies.
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Updated: 2004-07-09<P>
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