Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is the Australian archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity. The archdiocese is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. As of 2015, there were over 120 parishes and 8 monasteries inside the 4 diocesan districts of the archdiocese.

Archbishop Stylianos was the primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia. He changed into appointed to the placement in 1975. The archbishop become a theologian of global standing. He turned into the co-chairman of the official speak between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox church buildings. He received an award for poetry and wrote sixteen collections. He died in 2019. On nine May 2019, his successor, Bishop Makarios, turned into elected through the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate as Archbishop of Australia. Archbishop Makarios changed into enthroned in the front of heaps of trustworthy on 29 June 2019 on the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos.

The first churches based via Greek Orthodox in Australia have been Holy Trinity in Surry Hills, Sydney (1898), and Annunciation of the Theotokos in East Melbourne (1900). The first priest to serve the spiritual wishes of the Greek Orthodox populace in Sydney and Melbourne become Archimandrite Dorotheos Bakaliaros. In March 1924, the “Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand” changed into installed beneath the Ecumenical Patriarchate to cover the expanding Greek populace, which with the aid of 1927 numbered over 10,000 and had set up church buildings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Port Pirie in South Australia. The first metropolitan of the new province of the Ecumenical Patriarchate changed into Christoforos Knitis of Serres. In 1929, Metropolitan Christoforos lower back to his homeland, Samos. He died on 7 August 1959.

In 1931, Timotheos Evangelinidis turned into elected as the second one Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand. He arrived in Australia on 28 January 1932 and presided over the church in Australia and New Zealand until 1947 while he turned into elected Metropolitan of Rhodes. On 22 April of that 12 months, Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos turned into elected as the third metropolitan. On 2 August 1958, Metropolitan Theophylactos changed into killed in a automobile twist of fate. In February 1959 the assistant bishop of the Archdiocese of America, Bishop Ezekiel Tsoukalas of Nazianzos, become elected Metropolitan of Australia. He arrived in Sydney on 27 April 1959.

On 1 September 1959, the Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand was increased to an archdiocese and Metropolitan Ezekiel to an archbishop. Archbishop Ezekiel’s episcopacy coincided with a length of notable growth in the numbers of Greek Orthodox in Australia thru immigration, and many of the parishes that the church has nowadays have been formed below his guidance. In August 1974, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate multiplied Archbishop Ezekiel to the titular see of Metropolitan of Pisidia. He died in Athens in July 1987. On three February 1975, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected the Metropolitan of Miletoupolis, Stylianos Harkianakis, a lecturer on the University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia. Archbishop Stylianos arrived in Sydney on 15 April 1975 and turned into officially enthroned on Lazarus Saturday, 26 April 1975.

St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College

St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College is an Eastern Orthodox Christian seminary positioned in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales. The university turned into hooked up in 1986 by Archbishop Stylianos, who had proposed the established order of a theological university at some stage in the fourth clergy and laity congress in 1981. There become a want for a theological university that would be by and large committed to theological look at in co-operation with different theological colleges. It might be hoped that a centre of theological mirrored image and ecumenical dialogue might be created, imparting the Orthodox worldview and perspective with scriptural commentaries, the writings of the Greek Fathers, the Orthodox liturgy, iconography and spirituality.