St. Michael's Church, one of the 10 parishes of the Indonesian Orthodox Church (Gereja Ortodoks Indonesia, GOI), a church of Eastern Orthodox Church in Indonesia. This church is located in Taas Sub-district, Tikala District, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. This church is quite remote actually.

This church building as you can see from these photos is temporary and later a permanent church will be built at this location according to the church caretaker with whom I had the chance to talk. He lives near this church. I will visit this church again later.

I don't know the number of members of the Indonesian Orthodox Church in this province, North Sulawesi, let alone in this parish. There are probably a few hundred followers, I don't know.

For your information GOI is not an autocephalous church, nor is it an autonomous church within the Eastern Orthodox Church denomination. This church is just an ordinary diocese or bishopric of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece.

This church itself is also not in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox churches, let alone the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. This is because its parent church is part of what is called the Old Calendarists, a traditionalist group that rejects the use of the revised Julian calendar and still uses the (old) Julian calendar.

It's actually quite disheartening for the ecumenism or the Christian unity, at least within the Eastern Orthodox Church if I may say but even so I like the fact that this church exists around me. I hope the fanatic protestants Christians in my area will not persecute the Orthodox communities like this one.

A Morris Minor van passing over Respryn Bridge over the River Fowey near Lanhydrock, between the parishes of Lanhydrock and St. Winnow.Cornwall

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