Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia

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St Spyridon's Church, Kingsford, New South Wales

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is the Australian archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. As of 2015, there were over 120 parishes and eight monasteries in the four diocesan districts of the Archdiocese.

Archbishop of Australia

Archbishop Stylianos is the primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia. He was appointed to this position in 1975. Archbishop Stylianos is a theologian of international standing. He is the co-chairman of the official dialogue between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Archbishop Stylianos has won an award for poetry, and has written 16 collections.[1]

History

The first churches founded by Greek Orthodox in Australia were Holy Trinity in Surry Hills, Sydney (1898) and Annunciation of the Theotokos in East Melbourne (1900). The first priest to serve the religious needs of the Greek Orthodox population in Sydney and Melbourne was Archimandrite Dorotheos Bakaliaros. In March 1924, the 'Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand' was established under the Ecumenical Patriarchate to cover the expanding Greek population, which by 1927 numbered over 10,000 and had established churches in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Port Pirie in South Australia. The first Metropolitan of the new province of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was Christoforos Knitis of Serres. In 1929 Metropolitan Christoforos returned to his homeland, Samos. He died on 7 August 1959.

Cathedral of the Annunciation in Redfern, Sydney; the see of the Archbishop of Australia

In 1931, Timotheos Evangelinidis was elected as the second Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand. He arrived in Australia on 28 January 1932 and presided over the Church of Australia and New Zealand until 1947 when he was elected Metropolitan of Rhodes. On 22 April of that year Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos was elected as the third Metropolitan. On 2 August 1958, Metropolitan Theophylactos was killed in a car accident. In February 1959 the assistant bishop of the Archdiocese of America, Bishop Ezekiel Tsoukalas of Nazianzos, was elected Metropolitan of Australia. He arrived in Sydney on 27 April 1959.

On 1 September 1959 the Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand was elevated to an archdiocese and Metropolitan Ezekiel to an archbishop. Archbishop Ezekiel's episcopacy coincided with a period of great expansion in the numbers of Greek Orthodox in Australia through immigration, and many of the parishes that the church has today were formed under his guidance. In August 1974, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated Archbishop Ezekiel to the titular see of Metropolitan of Pisidia.[2] He died in Athens in July 1987. On 3 February 1975, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected the Metropolitan of Miletoupolis, Stylianos Harkianakis, a lecturer at the University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia. Archbishop Stylianos arrived in Sydney on 15 April 1975 and was officially enthroned on Lazarus Saturday on 26 April 1975.[3]

Primates in Australia

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Archbishops in Australia

Assistant Bishops in Australia

St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College

St Andrew's Theological College is an Eastern Orthodox Christian seminary located in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia St Andrew's Theological College was established 1986 by Archbishop Stylianos who proposed the establishment of a theological college during the fourth clergy-laity congress in 1981.There was an need for a theological college that would be primarily dedicated to theological study in cooperation with other theological colleges. It would be hoped that a center of theological reflection and ecumenical dialogue would be created, offering the Orthodox world view and perspective with great scriptural commentaries, the writings of the Greek Fathers, the Orthodox liturgy, iconography and spirituality.

Greek Orthodox Monasteries In Australia

There is a growing monastic presence in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Examples are the newly built Holy Cross and Pantanassa Monasteries.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Articles by Archbishop Stylianos
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  3. ↑ Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia — History. Greekorthodox.org.au. Retrieved on 2013-08-21.
  4. ↑ Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand. OrthodoxWiki. Retrieved on 2013-08-21.

External links

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