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This year, the parish of Saint Panteleimon in West Gosford, on the NSW Central Coast, celebrated its patronal feast over the weekend of Saturday August 8 and Sunday August 9.

The major services were on Saturday August 8, allowing many of the clergy of the Sydney Deanery of the Australian and New Zealand Diocese to be present.  On this day, the Orthodox Church keeps the memory of the holy Hieromartyr Hermolaus, the priest who baptised the Great-Martyr Panteleimon.Continue Reading

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ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ СПРАВКА

Небольшое тихоокеанское государство Вануату расположено в Меланезии и граничит территориальными водами с Соломоновыми Островами, Австралией, Новой Каледонией и Фиджи. Бывшее совместное владение Великобритании и Франции, Вануату (в прошлом Новые Гебриды) получило независимость в 1980 году. Численность населения этого государства составляет чуть более 200 тыс человек.

ВАНУАТУ – РОССИЯ

Двухсотлетие первых контактов с Россией отметили в небольшом островном государстве Тихого Океана Вануату в конце августа. История отношений двух стран начинается с того момента, как в 1809 году российский шлюп “Диана” под командованием прославленного адмирала Василия Михайловича Головнина прибыл в Порт-Резолюшен на острове Тана (современная Республика Вануату).Continue Reading

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Sunday 5 July 2009. On a beautiful, crisp, clear Canberra morning, the parishioners of St John the Baptist, led by their rector Archpriest Alexander Morozow, welcomed their beloved hierarch His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand to their Church to celebrate their patronal feastday – the Nativity of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John.

On the preceding evening, His Eminence celebrated the All Night Vigil Service with Litia (Blessing of the Loaves), and earlier that morning according to the traditional practice, a Blessing of the Waters service was conducted by the assistant Priest of the parish Fr Alexander Borodin and Fr Protodeacon Alexander Kotlaroff (from Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral in Strathfield, Sydney), with assistance from Reader Victor Kargin.Continue Reading

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On Monday the 22nd of June, His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion departed from Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport to begin an eight day visitation of the parishes in South Korea and Indonesia that are under the canonical protection of the Australian & New Zealand Diocese.

His first destination was Seoul, capital of South Korea where he was met by Deacon Father Paul Kang, who drove the Metropolitan to Holy Trinity Skete in the rural seaside village of Yonghwa.

On Tuesday the 23rd of June, His Eminence served the Divine Liturgy in the Skete’s Church of St Anna. The Head of the Korean Orthodox Mission, Father Justin Kang and his wife Matushka Helen, have both felt for a long time the call to the monastic life. Thus, during the Liturgy Father Justin Kang was tonsured to the small schema with the new name of John – Johan in Korean – in honour of St John of Kronstadt and will be based at Holy Trinity Skete. Matushka Helen Kang was tonsured into the small schema with the new name of Elizabeth in honour of the New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia. Mother Elizabeth is attached to St Helen’s Chapel in the village of Chanjho.Continue Reading

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On Saturday the 4th of July 2009, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion travelled 2 and half hours from Sydney to the township of Gunning. Here, in the home of Father Seraphim and Matushka Helen Slade he served the Divine Liturgy in English and blessed a chapel in honour of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco. Ordained priest only a year ago and of aboriginal heritage, Father Seraphim’s work with aboriginal media organisations obliges him to travel widely around Australia to many indigenous communities. This provides him with many excellent opportunities to introduce Orthodox Christianity to indigenous Australians in many different locations. The blessing of the home chapel provides Father Seraphim with a base where the Divine Liturgy can be regularly served for a small but growing number of converts to the Orthodox faith in Gunning and surrounding areas.Continue Reading