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South American Orthodox priests at a Cluj church: We came to learn from youtranslated

July 21, 2026 · 1 min read

Orthodox priests from the Metropolis of the Two Americas served on Monday at the church in the Mănăștur neighborhood of Cluj-Napoca. Among them were also South American clerics.

"We did not come to teach you anything, but we came to learn from you the secrets of the right faith and living life in Christ", said, in the teaching word, father Alex Aedo Vilugron, archpope of Latin America within the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Two Americas.

Father Alex Aedo Vilugron has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford and currently pastors the Conception Parish in Chile – home to the southernmost Orthodox church in the world.

The council of 12 priests and deacons also included: father Daniel Ene, the administrative vicar of the Archdiocese of North America; Father Vasile Mureșan from the Metropolitan Cathedral "Saints Constantine and Helena" in Chicago, USA; Father Antonio Garcia of the Church of Saints Constantine and Helena in Caracas, Venezuela; Father Esteban Diaz Nino from the Church of "Saint John the Valahul Martyr" in Barranquilla, Colombia; Father Rafael Padilla from the "St. Joseph de la Partos" Church in Quito,...

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Mária Horváthová

Pope Alex Aedo Vilugron from Chile caught my attention - he has a doctorate from Oxford and at the same time serves in the southernmost Orthodox parish in the world. It's interesting how faith spreads down there too. I would like to know how they are doing with the local people in that Parish of Conception.

Ondrej Novák

Pope Alex Aedo Vilugron interested me, that doctorate from Oxford and then such a small parish down in Chile. I wonder if they have more local ex-Catholics there, or rather immigrants from Eastern Europe. I would definitely like to look at the photos from their Conception, if I can find any.