Christmas celebration in Santiago de Chile

The seventh time since the foundation of the parish of Saint Nicholas of Zhicha in Santiago de Chile the Nativity of Christ was solemnly celebrated. The  solemnity took place in the church of the Nativity of Most Holy Mother of God under the auspices of the Patriarchate of Antioch, where otherwise this international Orthodox community celebrates all the services and performs other parish activities.

Parish priest Revd. Dusan Mihajlovic served  All Night Vigil on Christmas Eve, and on the next day Christmas Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great.

Quite a number of faithful from the Serbian and Russian diaspora attended the services as well as Orthodox Chileans. The service was also attended by a tourist group from Serbia and Montenegro who found out about this Christmas service in this church from the Orthodox website Pravoslavie.cl.

Source: Pravoslavie.cl (translated by the Information Service of the SOC)