Just when you thought the world couldn't get any crazier...
Ugandan Old Believers:
Were they evangelized by Old Believers or did they start out as Canonical?
They were evangelized.
Link: http://www.inafran.ru/en/node/587
I'm impressed that such a small group as the Old Believers has the ability (and the drive) to do missions! Perhaps this puts wealthier churches to shame. I pray that Christ saves many through their efforts.
Me too, seeing how they have become more like the Amish and afraid of outsiders over the last few hundred years. Closer observation also shows this isn't the group under Met. Cornelius who seems to have the biggest Old Believer group in Russia.
I'm a little late but all the same, I'm certain I posted that same photo somewhere on these boards. That parish does indeed belong to the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church under Met. Cornelius of Moscow.
This blog post names the "founding" priest as Joachim Kiyimba and says that he came from a priestly Anglican family. At some point he joined the Alexandrian Patriarchate before moving on to the Old Calendarist Cyprianite Synod in 1991. He remained there until 1998, when he jumped on to the "Syriac-Greek Antiochian Orthodox Catholic Church in Africa," a vagante jurisdiction by the looks of it. After that, he joined the Genuine Orthodox Church (Kallinikite) in 2000 but seems to have reverted back to the Cyprianites by 2004. By 2007, he had jumped ship again and joined with the Genuine Orthodox Church of America under Gregory of Colorado. In 2013, however, he was recognized as a Protopriest of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.
He reposed in 2015 it seems and was succeeded in his position by his deacon, the now priest Joachim Walusimbi, who was in attendance at the most recent meeting of the Metropolitan Council in Moscow according to the photos in
this article, sitting besides Fr. Cyril Amer of Pakistan:
