The island of Greenland, which has only parish and is run and governed by Denmark, has an area of 836,000 square miles (2,166,000 square kilometres.) Its area is the size of these countries combined: Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, England and Italy. 80% of it is covered in snow. The one parish is Christ the King in Nuuk, and giving pastoral service there is Slovenian priest Father Tomaz Majcen. He’s been its pastor since 2017, helped by two other priests. There are around 300 Catholics in Nuuk, with 500 Catholics all over Greenland, most of them from the Philippines, and a few from South America and Europe, and a few from Denmark. Father Tomaz celebrates Mass on Sunday in English, and occasionally they have a baptism, 7 in total all of last year. They had one confirmation and 7 First Holy Communions. Isolation is one of the biggest problems in Greenland, and besides, most of the time, it’s sunny, with midnight sun a regular occurrence in the summer months. In the winter months of course, it’s pretty dark for 21 hours.
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