Recife, Brazil, December 1, 2011
On his last day in Brazil, the Metropolitan met with His Eminence Don Antonio Fernando Saburido, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife in the early morning at the Metropolitanate's manor in Recife. In a friendly Christian talk Metropolitan Amfilohije informed Archbishop Fernando of the creation of the new Diocese of the Serbian Church in Brazil, expressing his pleasure with the visit to the Archbishop and asking about the life of this Archbishopric.
Archbishop Fernando welcomed the Metropolitan to Recife and wished him success in the work to advance the life of the Orthodox Church in Recife. He also informed the Metropolitan about the fact that the Archbishopric of Olinda and Recife is one of the oldest in Brazil and on the South American continent in general.
Metropolitan Amfilohije presented the Catholic Archbishop with a cross from Ostrog Monastery and two books of Orthodox theology in Portuguese by local hierarchical deputy Archpriest Alexis Pena-Alfara.
The same day the Metropolitan visited two Orthodox communities in the same Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
First he visited the Missionary parish of St. Anthony the Great in Belo Jardim, a city of 75,000 citizens, 180 kilometers from Recife, and later also the Missionary parish of St. John Chrysostom in the city of Caruara, with a population of 315,000, 120 kilometers from Recife.
