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Similar to most other jurisdictions :''Expanded in: [[History of Antiochian Orthodoxy in Australasia]]''The first wave of Syrian (now Lebanese) immigration was in Australiathe 1880-1890s, where work was found in hawking and other parts peddling goods in the country areas of the 'diaspora'eastern states of Australia. The first places of worship were in Sydney and Melbourne, with a detailed early history of Greek speaking priest who also spoke Arabic and, sometimes, Russian. The Antiochian Orthodox faithful took part in the Archdiocese is better told in terms construction of citiesboth Holy Trinity, Sydney, which later formed into the dioceseand Holy Annunciation, rather than the other way aroundMelbourne.
The first wave Due to the problems concerning the election of an Arab Patriarch of Lebanese, then called Syrian, immigration was Antioch in 1899 and the decision of the 1880-1890s, where work was found in hawking and peddling goods [[Church of Constantinople]] to appropriate jurisdiction of parishes in the country areas diaspora to the [[Church of Greece]] with the eastern states sole use of AustraliaEcclesiastical Greek, these churches were effectively closed off from the Arab Orthodox, aside from the sacraments. The first place of worship was usually However, these faithful would not be denied Orthodoxy in their language and culture, and founded three Antiochian Orthodox churches in the capital cities of Australasia: St George, Sydney (founded by Fr [[Nicholas Shehadie]], exarch); St Nicholas, Melbourne (founded by Archim. [[Antonious (Mobayed)|Antonious]]); and MelbourneSt Michael, Dunedin (founded by Hmk [[Nicholas (Manovitch)|Nicholas]]. These churches, with a Greek speaking priest who also spoke Arabic founded in the 1920s and sometimes Russian too1930s, continued to be the only Antiochian Orthodox parishes in Australasia through the period of the Exarchate.
===Sydney===The Antiochian Orthodox faithful took part in In 1969, the construction Church of a community church dedicated Antioch sent Archimandrite Gibran (Ramlawey) to Australia as Patriarchal Exarch to find the Holy Trinity best way to solve problems caused by two priests having to serve every Antiochian Orthodox in Surry Hills with Australia. On his recommendations, the Greek Diocese of Australia and Russian Orthodox faithful. A priest New Zealand was created, and Archimandrite Gibran was later provided by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalemelected as [[Patriarchal Vicar]]. Due to various difficulties regarding the 1898 deposition Two parishes were created very soon after his arrival - St Nicholas, Punchbowl, NSW was created as a result of the Greek speaking Patriarch Bp [[Gibran (Ramlawey) of Antioch Australia and New Zealand|Gibran]]'s directive, and the 1899 election St George, Thornbury, Vic. was created as a result of an Arabic speaking Patriarch tensions caused by differing waves of Antioch, the Syrian community then took to meeting in individual homes, only going to the church in Surry Hills for necessitiesimmigrants.
In 1934, Exarch Nicholas Shehadie, suffering from chronic asthma, reposed From ten parishes at his enthronement in his early 70s. Then his second son, [[Michael Shehadie|Michael]]late 1999, became a priest. During the time of his presbyterate total at the Church end of Saint George, the government lease expiredeight years of Met. Fr Michael worked with the government to find a new site andAbp Paul's tenure, in 1950, they were granted land at the corner close of Walker 2007, stands at approximately 34 parishes or missions and Cooper Sts1 monastery, Redfernincluding three English-language parishes in Sydney, where Melbourne and the church - now cathedral - stands today. HoweverGold Coast, Fr Michael never saw it built. In 1951served by 42 clergymen, aged 56, he reposedincluding two university [[chaplain]]s in Melbourne and the first Orthodox military chaplain in Australia.
===Melbourne===By the early twentieth centuryIn 2008, a significant number "historic moment in the history of Lebanese had settled ...the Archdiocese" occurred, with the Archdiocese accepting two denominations in the Philippines, including over 30 religious leaders and 32 churches with ~6000 adherents, forming two vicariates in the Philippines (based in MelbourneDavao and Manila, one for each former denomination). These families kept This event was especially marked by a change in contact the name of the Archdiocese to include 'Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines', with each other, working Met. Abp Paul as hawkersprimate [http://www.antiochianarch.org.au/NewsItem.aspx?i=38]. Notably, shopkeepershowever, or wholesalers, during the week, Davao Vicariate would later leave the Antiochian Archdiocese and using the weekend for social activities including meeting in join [[ROCOR]] as [[Western Rite]] parishes before leaving the Exhibition Gardens on SundaysChurch altogether.
The first Orthodox church in Melbourne, Holy Annunciation, was established in East Melbourne. The establishment of this community church was a joint effort by Greek speaking Orthodox, Arabic speaking Orthodox, and Russian speaking Orthodox. The services were in both Greek and Arabic. The altar servers were of Greek and Lebanese/Syrian descent. Some of the icons were donated by Lebanese/Syrians, and the first warden was Lebanese. By the 1920s however, Holy Annunciation became a predominately Greek speaking church with a priest who could not speak Arabic.
By the 1920s Lebanese/Syrians, were only attending special services at Holy Annunciation such as weddings, baptisms and funerals. Some chose to send their children to Sunday school at Anglican or Protestant churches, where English was used. But none of this truly met the needs of the Lebanese/Syrian community. They shared their Orthodox place of worship for up to forty years until the excesses of Greek nationalism drove them out. By the late 1920s, it was obviously necessary to found their own Arabic speaking church.
In 1929, James Batrouney visited Lebanon/Syria, met Archimandrite [[Antonious (Mobayed)]], and on his return to Melbourne, Archim. Antonious was recommended as a suitable priest (being well-educated and speaking Arabic, Russian and Greek) for the church in Melbourne. Patriarch Arsanios of Antioch commissioned Archim. Antonious as the first priest of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Victoria. He arrived on 12 Nov 1931, bringing and donating everything essential for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. Some of these items can still be found at Saint Nicholas Church today.
The first services were held in Saint George Anglican Mission, the beginning of a long and amicable relationship between Anglicans and Orthodox in Victoria. In March 1932 the community purchased a church, where Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church stands today, using four £125 donations from John Batrouney, Joseph & Walter Davis, and Alex Malouly. The iconostasis, based on the iconostasis of the [[Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Tokyo, Japan)|Holy Resurrection Cathedral]], Tokyo, was completed by Palm Sunday, 1932, when the first service was held in the Church.
At the first council meeting of May 1932, the majority favoured the name Saint Anthony, in honour of their first priest, however many preferred Saint George. To settle the dispute, Archim. Antonious placed 12 names in a bag on the altar and George Facoory, the oldest member of the community, drew out Saint Nicholas. The church was consecrated on 1 October 1933 by Metropolitan [[Timotheos (Evangelinidis) of Rhodes|Timotheos]], the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia. The consecration, attended by Rev. F.E. Maynard (Anglican) and the Greek and French consuls, was chanted in Arabic, English, Greek, and Slavonic.
Saint Nicholas included both Arabic members and Russian members, the latter group contributing to bringing Archim. Antonious to Australia, converting the church into an Orthodox church, writing icons, and organising a choir which would chant the Liturgy in Slavonic on every fourth Sunday. When the Russians established their first church in Melbourne in the early 1950s, the committee of Saint Nicholas donated a Slavonic Bible in memory of Archim. Antonious, and as a symbol of the enduring friendship between the Syrian/Lebanese and the Russians.
With Arabic and Slavonic choirs, a youth society, Syrian/Lebanese youth that knew the service in Arabic, and a priest willing to travel to Sydney, Adelaide and New Zealand to raise funds, Archimandrite Antonious was a very suitable and dedicated priest for the Melbourne flock. However, after a short illness, he reposed on [[November 9]], 1943. He was buried by Metropolitan Timotheos and assisted by Archimandrite [[Theophylactos (Papathanasopoulos) of Australia and New Zealand|Theophylactos]] and Fr [[Michael Shehadie]], and was replaced by Exarch George Haydar<-- in 19xx-->.
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*''[http://www.stnicholas.org.au/Articles/DrBtrney.htm Source]
===New Zealand===
*[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/parishes/Dunedin_Files/Dunedin.html The Antiochian Orthodox Church in Dunedin]
===Diocesan and Archdiocesan===
Following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother, John Shehadie became a priest. Fr John served at St George church for a short time, after which he founded Saint Nicholas Church, Punchbowl, following one of the first directives of Bishop Gibran. Fr John served here until his 1987 retirement.
*The [http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/category/7/30/21/ History section] of the Archdiocesan website.
*[http://www.geocities.com/abuelabed007/SPAH.htm History of St Paul's Antiochian Orthodox Church]. A history of the Archdiocese in the city of Brisbane.
===External=links==* [http://www.antiochianantiochianarch.org.au Official website of the Archdiocese]
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name=Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, and New Zealand, and All Oceania|
jurisdiction=[[Church of Antioch|Antioch]]|
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The '''Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceaniathe Philippines''', with headquarters in Sydney, is an [[archdiocese]] of the [[Church of Antioch]]. Its current On 1 July, 2017, its [[primate]] is His Eminence [[Paul (Saliba) of Australia and New Zealand|Paul (Saliba)]], [[Metropolitan Archbishop]] of Australia, New Zealandand the Philippines, and All Oceaniareposed. Fr Basil Khodseie was named by Patriarch John to be the representative of the Patriarch to the Archdiocese.
==History==
The late 1980s saw some growth in parishes. In 19131985, Father [[Nicholas Shehadie]] a parish was sent to Australia as Exarch to determine created in Mays Hill, NSW; 1989 saw the extent of the problem and to find possible solutions. While this was intended to be temporary, World War I intervened preventing Father Nicholas from returning to Lebanon where his family resided. Hencefirst parish committee for a church in Brisbane, his stay became permanentQld. He realised The mid-1990s saw the need for first instance of growth by group conversion as a church for result of the Anglican Church of Australia's decision to ordain females, which gave the Antiochian OrthodoxDiocese four parishes, a monastery and determined five priests, mostly parish priests who were assigned to build it. Divine Liturgy was held in parishioners' homes until pastor the flock that timethey had guided into Orthodoxy.
In 1999, Bp Gibran reposed. The State Government leased a block Holy Synod of land Antioch, having raised Australia and New Zealand to an Archdiocese, consecrated Archim. Paul (Saliba), the Antiochian Orthodox parish priest of St. George Church on in Washington DC, as the corner Metropolitan Archbishop of Walker and Redfern Streets Redfernthe new Archdiocese. The first Antiochian Orthodox church was built there His tenure has seen a rapid growth of parishes, clergy and placed under the patronage use of English in the Divine Liturgy of Saint GeorgeAntiochian Orthodox parishes.
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==Organisation==
The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese is a single archdiocese spanning a number of countries. The Archbishop resides in Australia, and there is a Deanery for New Zealand, and presences a Vicariate in other countries of the regionPhilippines. There are 25 [[parish]]es and missions across Australia, 8 parishes and missions in the Deanery of New Zealand, and approximately 32 parishes and missions in the Philippines; the Archdiocese estimates (2005) indicate ~37,500 490 active congregants in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, and New Zealand, and All Oceania. The Archdiocese also has one female monastery of [[Monastery of St Anna (Prestonthere are ~3, Australia)|St Anna]] 000 adherants in Victoria, and founded the multi-jurisdictional [[Melbourne Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies]]Philippines.
The Antiochian Orthodox Diocese Archdiocese also had one female monastery of Australasia [[St. Anna Convent (as it was then calledPreston, Victoria) was a founding member |St Anna]] in Victoria, co-founded the multi-jurisdictional [[Melbourne Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies]] and runs the [[Standing Conference St. Paul's Theological Course of Canonical Orthodox Churches in AustraliaStudies|St Paul's Theological Course of Studies]]. The Antiochian Many students of theology have been sponsored by the Archdiocese says that SCCOCAto study at Balamand University, at [[St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York)|St Vladimir's Seminary]], after being moribund for quite a number USA, or through the St Stephen's Course of years, finally became defunct Studies in Orthodox Theology via the year 2000[[Antiochian House of Studies]].
The Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Australasia (as it was then called) was a founding member of the [[Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Churches in Australia]]. The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, and New Zealand, and All Oceania, (as it was then called) was a founding member of [[Eastern Hierarchs]]. The Antiochian Archdiocese believes this is a friendly, effective believing it to be an organisation, working for towards spreading the love of God spreading throughout the whole mystery of His Church. It is now a part of the [[Episcopal Assembly of Oceania|Episcopal Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in Oceania]] that met in 2010 in response to the Chambesy meeting.
== The Episcopacy Administration=====Current Episcopacy===* Metropolitan Archbishop ''See vacant. Archimandrite Basil Kodseie was named Patriarchal Vicar on 1 July 2017''. [http://www.antiochianarch.org.au/NewsItem.aspx?i=776]**Vicar-General of Archdiocese: Right Reverend [Paul [Archimandrite]] [[Nabil (Saliba) of Australia and New Zealand|Paul (SalibaKachab)]] of Australia, New Zealand and All Oceania.**Dean of New Zealand is Australia: [[Archpriest]] [[Jack WitbrockGeorge Nasr]].**Vicar-General and [[Deanery of New Zealand (Antiochian)|Dean of the Cathedral is Right Reverend New Zealand]]: [[ArchimandritePriest]] [[Nabil (Kachab)Ian Nield]].**Dean Vicar of Clergy for the Archdiocese is Manila: Archpriest [[George Nasr]].Pascualito Monsato
===Primates in Bishops of Australia and New Zealand===* Bishop [[Gibran (Ramlawey) of Australia and New Zealand|Gibran (Ramlawey)]], Bishop Patriarchal Vicar of Australia and New Zealand, 1969-1999.* Metropolitan Archbishop [[Paul (Saliba) of Australia and New Zealand|Paul (Saliba)]] of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania, 1999-present2017.
== See Also ==* [[Antiochian parishes Orthodoxy in AustralasiaAustralia]]*[[Orthodoxy in New Zealand]]*[[Orthodoxy in the Philippines]]
* [http://www.antiochian.org.nz Official website of the New Zealand Deanery]
* [http://www.antiochpat.org Official website of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch]
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