Coming from a long lineage of priests (his grandfathers and his brother, who is Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong), it came as little surprise that Metropolitan Konstantinos of Singapore decided to dedicate his life to God, orthodoxchurch.sg reports.
Leaving his career in the press, he has ordained a deacon in 2008 and then as an Archimandrite. In 2011, he was ordained as the first-ever Metropolitan of Singapore.
Metropolitan Konstantinos first travelled to Hong Kong in 1998 to provide media work and assistance. “I went to volunteer in Hong Kong as I knew the Metropolitan of Hong Kong. I visited several times for the opening of orphanages, and other philanthropic events and I became connected with the people,” he notes. While acknowledging life was hard, he took heart in the people who buoyed his spirits with the love and welcoming they showed him.
The Orthodox Metropolitanate of Singapore was established in 2008 when the Ecumenical Patriarchate made the decision to detach it from the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong.
Metropolitan Konstantinos has Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Timor, Maldives islands, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan under the spiritual jurisdiction of his Metropolitanate. There are roughly 15,000 Orthodox in total.
Liturgies are conducted in English but include some words of the local language, for example, Bahasa. “It’s important we do this because when we pray there has to be an element of the familiar and language plays a part in this,” says His Eminence.
For more information on the Archdiocese of Singapore visit orthodoxchurch
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