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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!
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On other festivals the times of services will be announced. Please
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On the eves of great feasts the Vigil (Vespers, Litiya, Orthros)
is served.
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Church of St Nicholas of Japan
Tel: 011-453-4514 (home) 082-549-8033 (cell)
Rectory:
36 Sixth Avenue
Tel: 011-659-4690
Brian & Cathy MacDonald
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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.
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
Services
Divine Liturgy
9:30 am on Sundays - preceded by Matins at 8:30Vespers
6:30 pm on Saturdays
Where are we?
Physical address
The church is at 156 Fulham Road, Brixton,
Johannesburg, about a block and a half west of the Brixton
broadcasting tower, on the hill above the SABC offices in Auckland
Park.Postal Address
The Parish postal address is:
PO Box 1148
Melville
2109 South Africa
Parish Priest
Father Mircea Corpodean
Edenvale
1609 South AfricaChurchwarden
Dr Azar Jammine
Tel:
Chairman
Mrs Carol Hamman
Cell: 083-457-3932Other parish council members
Mr Marios Joseph
Tel: 012-653-3725
Tel: 082-429-0444
Links to other places
More about us
In 1987 a group of Orthodox Christians in South Africa formed
the Society of St Nicholas
of Japan 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.
Steve Hayes
Steve Hayes
PO Box 56303
Arcadia
0007 South Africa