The
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is an
Archdiocese of the
Greek Orthodox Church in
Australia, part of the
Eastern Orthodox religion.
The Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of Australia is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate of Constantinople
.
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, which shows that
he is not only an eminent theologian and servant of the church but
also a patron of the literary arts.
History
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
. The first Metropolitan of the new province
of the Ecumenical Thronos was Christoforos Knitis of Serres. In
1929 Metropolitan Christoforos returned to his homeland, Samos. He
died on the 7th 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 the 28th
January 1932 and presided over the Church of Australia and New
Zealand until 1947 when he was elected Metropolitan of Rhodes. On
the 22nd April of that year
Theophylactos
Papathanasopoulos was elected as the third Metropolitan. On the
2nd 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 the 27th April, 1959.
On the 1st September 1959 the Metropolis of Australia and New
Zealand was elevated to Archdiocese and Metropolitan Ezekiel to
Archbishop. In August 1974, the Ecumenical Patriarchate promoted
His Eminence Archbishop Ezekiel to the Metropolis of Pisidia. He
died in Athens July 1987. On the 3rd February 1975, the Holy Synod
of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected His Eminence
Metropolitan of Miletoupolis
Stylianos Harkianakis, lecturer at the
University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia.
Archbishop Stylianos arrived in Sydney on the 15th April 1975 and
was officially enthroned on Lazarus Saturday on the 26th April
1975.
See also
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