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Stylianos Harkianakis (Greek: Στυλιανός Χαρκιανάκης; 29 December 1935 – 25 March 2019) was the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia and Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
On 9 May 2019, Archbishop Makarios was unanimously elected as the new archbishop of Australia, by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, succeeding Archbishop Stylianos of Australia, who died earlier that year (on March 25). [3] On 18 June 2019, Archbishop Makarios arrived in Australia to be enthroned and begin his duties as the ...
The Archbishop of Australia is the Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, a jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion. The position was most recently held by Archbishop Stylianos.
Archbishop of Constantinople (also the Patriarch) Archbishop of America of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; Archbishop of Australia of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia; Archbishop of Crete of the Church of Crete; Archbishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is the Australian archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The archdiocese is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. As of 2024, there were over 130 parishes and eight monasteries in the six dioceses of the ...
Archbishop Ezekiel Tsoukalas (Greek: Ιεζεκιήλ Τσουκαλάς; 13 May 1913 – 22 July 1987) was a Greek bishop and the first Archbishop of Australia in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Archbishop Ezekiel was an assistant bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America from 1950 to 1959. He had served as a bishop in ...
The Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand was elevated to an archdiocese in 1959 and Metropolitan Ezekiel was elevated to archbishop. In 1970, Ecumenical Patriarchate split the archdiocese into the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and the Metropolis of New Zealand.
Father Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos had presided over the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand until Metropolitan Timotheos arrived in Australia on 26 January 1932 (Australia Day). [2] On Sunday 10 November 1935, Timotheos opened and dedicated a Greek Orthodox church in Innisfail, Queensland. It was the second Greek ...