{"id":10713,"date":"2015-05-02T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/?p=10713"},"modified":"2015-05-07T23:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:17:51","slug":"communique-the-assembly-of-canonical-orthodox-bishops-of-oceania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=10713","title":{"rendered":"Communiqu\u00e9 – The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHRIST IS RISEN!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania includes all jurisdictions in the region \u2013 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Zealand and Exarchate of Oceania, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, Russian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand, Ukrainian Orthodox Consistory in Australia and New Zealand, Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of USA, Canada and Australia, and Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand. As you may be aware, the last Synaxis of the Assembly mandated the initiation of work on a website representing the Assembly.<\/p>\n

Consequently, we are delighted to inform you about the launching of the official Orthodox Australia and Oceania website \u2013 www.orthodox.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the official website of our Assembly, and is intended to facilitate Pan-Orthodox communication. In Australia alone, there are currently 244 Orthodox churches, 20 monasteries and approximately 563,000 declared Eastern Orthodox Christians (according to the Australian Census of 2011).<\/p>\n

We are aiming to provide:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Maps and lists of all Orthodox parishes and monasteries in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji
\n\u2022 Electronic copies of official documents of the Assembly
\n\u2022 News and photos from Church events
\n\u2022 Information about upcoming events \u2013 parish feast days, seminars, planned pilgrimages, Bible Study groups etc.<\/p>\n

In connection with the website, we have also established a Facebook group called \u201cOrthodox Christians of Australia\u201d, which already has over 1000 members, including a large contingent of Orthodox clergy.<\/p>\n

If possible, we would highly appreciate your support for our initiative, which aims to bring Orthodox communities closer together. You can help us in the following ways:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Inform parishioners about the website by distributing our link www.orthodox.net.au<\/a>;
\n\u2022 Provide a link to www.orthodox.net.au<\/a> on your parish website;
\n\u2022 Display the downloadable flyer and cards on your parish notice board;
\n\u2022 Review and update your parish listing;
\n\u2022 Submit information about events, pilgrimages, Bible Study groups to Facebook group or by email orthodoxau@gmail.com<\/a>;
\n\u2022 Assist in translation to your language, and,
\n\u2022 Report any inaccuracies\/grammatical issues\/omissions or technical problems relating to the website to our webmaster on orthodoxau@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the Assembly of Canonical Bishops, we thank you for your help and invoke God\u2019s rich and benevolent blessings upon you.<\/p>\n

Dated, 21st April 2015<\/p>\n

Archbishop Stylianos (Chairman ex officio, Ecumenical Patriarchate)
\nMetropolitan Archbishop Paul (Antiochian Patriarchate)
\nMetropolitan Hilarion (Russian Patriarchate)
\nBishop Irinej (Serbian Patriarchate)
\nBishop Mihail (Romanian Patriarchate)
\nMetropolitan Amphilochios (Ecumenical Patriarchate)
\nBishop Ezekiel (Assistant Bishop – Ecumenical Patriarchate)
\nBishop Seraphim (Assistant Bishop – Ecumenical Patriarchate)
\nBishop Nikandros (Assistant Bishop – Ecumenical Patriarchate)
\nBishop Iakovos (Assistant Bishop – Ecumenical Patriarchate)
\nBishop George (Assistant Bishop – Russian Patriarchate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHRIST IS RISEN! Our Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania includes all jurisdictions in the region \u2013 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Zealand and Exarchate of Oceania, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, Russian Orthodox Diocese of Australia andContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,7],"tags":[167],"class_list":["entry","author-protodak","has-more-link","post-10713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-articles","category-diocesan-news","category-english","tag-communique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}