This year, the pastoral conference of the Australian and New Zealand Diocese took place on 18th and 19th March at the Holy Protection Cathedral in Melbourne. The gathering of clergy was an important event that contributed to strengthening unity among the clergy and discussing current pastoral issues.
On Cheesefare Sunday, the day of the commemoration of Adam’s expulsion and Forgiveness Sunday, His Eminence George Archbishop of Sydney Australia and New Zealand celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Strathfield. Co-served with his Eminence were the Cathedral clergy.
On February 9, the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, and the feast of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, His Eminence Archbishop George of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral Strathfield.
19 января, в день праздника Крещения Господня, Высокопреосвященнейший Георгий, Архиепископ Сиднейский и Австралийско-Новозеландский, совершил Всенощное бдение, Божественную Литургию и чин Великого освящения воды в Петропавловском кафедральном соборе в Стратфилде.
Архиепископу Георгию сослужило духовенство собора. Праздничное богослужение сопровождалось великолепным пением хора под управлением Андрея Лаптева.
Служба собрала большое количество верующих и многие причастились Святых Христовых Тайн.Continue Reading
On 6th and 7th January 2025, the joyous occasion of the Nativity of Christ, His Eminence George, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, and New Zealand, presided over the divine services at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Strathfield.
On Monday, January 6, 2025, on the eve of the Nativity of Christ, a solemn divine service was held at the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul in Strathfield. The Divine Liturgy was led by His Eminence George, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand.
The service began with the reading of the Royal Hours, a special service for the feast of the Nativity of Christ. This was followed by the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great.Continue Reading
Eminent brother-archpastors, reverend fathers,
Beloved brothers, sisters, and children in the Lord!
With a feeling of rejoicing in the Newborn Christ, I greet my brother-archpastors, reverend fathers, monastics, and all the faithful children of the Russian Church Abroad with the feast of Christ’s Nativity, salvific for the world, the Theophany, and the New Year 2025, fervently wishing everyone all-strengthening joy in the Son of God’s coming into the world.Continue Reading
On December 4, 2024, Orthodox Christians celebrated the Great feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple. On this solemn day, festive services were held at the Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Strathfield, led by His Eminence Archbishop George of the Australian and New Zealand Diocese.
The Vigil and the Divine Liturgy were celebrated in an atmosphere of prayer and reverence. Vladyka George was joined by the clergy of the Cathedral, and the faithful filled the church with their heartfelt prayers and hymns glorifying the Most Holy Theotokos.Continue Reading
On Friday, November 8, 2024, the feast day of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, His Eminence Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid-America died suddenly.
Archbishop Peter (in the world, Paul A. Loukianoff) was born in San Francisco in 1948, of Don Cossack ancestry. His family had lived in China before moving to San Francisco in the 1940’s. Archbishop Peter was an altar boy at the San Francisco cathedral to Archbishop Tikhon (Troitsky) and close to St. John (Maximovitch), with whom he served the last 3 years prior to St. John’s repose.Continue Reading
