{"id":17717,"date":"2025-08-19T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/?p=17688"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:36:53","slug":"archbishop-george-celebrates-the-feast-for-holy-transfiguration-at-sts-peter-and-paul-cathedral-strathfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=17717","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop George celebrates the feast for Holy Transfiguration at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral, Strathfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transfiguration_10.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17698\" src=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/transfiguration_10-120x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>On Monday, 18th and Tuesday, 19th August 2025, His Eminence George, Archbishop of Sydney Australia &amp; New Zealand celebrated the Divine Services for the feast of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral in Strathfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Serving with His Eminence were the Cathedral clergy, together with Protodeacon Nikifor Franklin from the Nativity of the Theotokos Church Albany, NY, USA. 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Eminence George, Archbishop of Sydney Australia &amp; New Zealand celebrated the Divine Services for the feast of the Holy Transfiguration of our Lord at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral in Strathfield. Serving with His Eminence were the Cathedral clergy, together with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=17717\">Continue 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":[6,2,7,5],"tags":[254,268],"class_list":["entry","author-protodak","has-more-link","post-17717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-articles","category-diocesan-news","category-english","category-photos","tag-archbishop-george","tag-transfiguration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717","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=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}