On February 3, 2021, a group of students from the Cambodian Presbyterian Theological Institute visited St. George’s Church in Phnom Penh. The guests were greeted by the rector, hieromonk Paisiy (Ipate), who held a conversation about Orthodoxy in Cambodia, the organization of Orthodox churches and Orthodox worship. Then Fr. Paisiy answered questions that were mainly related to church history; students were presented with Orthodox publications in Khmer: the Catechism of St. Nicholas of Serbia, Didache and the Lives of the Saints.
Orthodox Christians appeared in Cambodia in the 1990s. After the trip to the country of the metropolitan of Kaliningrad and Smolensk Kirill in 2001, the systematic care of the small Orthodox community of Cambodia started. And in 2013, the Orthodox Church was officially registered.
Cambodian communities are the part of the Diocese of Thailand and include three parishes: in the capital Phnom Penh, as well as in Sihanoukville and Siem Reap.
If initially the main task was to nourish the small Orthodox diaspora (Russians and Bulgarians), then in recent years, preaching among the indigenous Khmers has been developing more and more. The prayer book, the Divine Liturgy, the catechism of St. Nicholas Serbsky and other texts.