Eastern Orthodoxy in Uganda

[1] Historically, Uganda was among the first Sub-Saharan countries where Eastern Orthodox Christian communities began to form.

At Monde there are a primary and secondary school, a hospital, a church of Saint Anthony the Great, and a female monastery (St. Mary of Egypt) with two sisters.

He has taken care of orphans and operates an ambulance service and was instrumental in the establishment of a school and a medical clinic.

Both the school and clinic were dedicated to Saint Panteleimon of Nicomedia, but the Ugandan government assumed control and secularized them.

Christopher planned and built the stone church building which is topped by a multi-colored Russian onion dome.