Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visits Russian vessel

On 17 February 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria, currently on a missionary trip in Africa, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Greek church in Dar es Salaam, the largest city of Tanzania, on his Name Day, together with hierarchs and clerics of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Attending the service were Orthodox Tanzanians, diplomats, citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Serbia and Romania, as well as the crew of ‘Marshal Shaposhnikov’, a large destroyer of the Russian Navy currently on a visit to Tanzania. That same day in the evening His Beatitude visited the vessel.