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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
On 3 February 1975, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected Metropolitan of Miletoupolis Stylianos Harkianakis, lecturer at the University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia. He arrived in Sydney on 15 April 1975 and was officially enthroned on Lazarus Saturday on 26 April 1975.
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 ...
His funeral service was presided over by Archbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira at the Cathedral of St Sophia, Darlinghurst, Sydney. He was buried at Botany Cemetery , and to date he is the only Greek Orthodox bishop to be buried in Australasia.
Greek Australians are predominantly Greek Orthodox. [19] The largest religious body of Greek Orthodox Australians is the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, with its headquarters at the Cathedral of The Annunciation of Our Lady in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.