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*1932 Palm Sunday: The iconostasis - based on the iconostasis at [[Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Tokyo, Japan)|Holy Resurrection Cathedral]], Tokyo - was completed. First service held.
*1932 May: At the first council meeting, the majority of the community wanted to name the community after St Anthony, many preferred St 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 St Nicholas.
*1933 Oct 1: Metropolitan [[Timotheos (Evangelinidis) of Australia and New ZealandRhodes|Timotheos]], head of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand, consecrated the church. Consecration chanted in Arabic, English, Greek, Slavonic, and was attended by Rev. F.E. Maynard (Anglican) and the Greek and French consuls.*1937: Archim. Antonious resides in New Zealand for several months. He asks local Anglican clergy, who agree, to care for local Orthodox as a temporary measure.*1939: Last visit to New Zealand.
*The Russian members of the community helped to convert the church into an Orthodox Church, wrote icons, and organised a Slavonic choir that, along with Archim. Antonious, chanted the Liturgy in Slavonic every fourth Sunday.
*Archim. Antonious, in running a newly-founded church, was able to list many accomplishments: he organised a choir, taught the youth the service in Arabic, established a youth society designed to help the youth acclimatise and keep close to the Church, travelled to Sydney, Adelaide and New Zealand to raise funds so that St Nicholas Church could have all the necessities and trappings for Orthodox services.
==Sources==
*[http://www.stnicholas.org.au/Articles/DrBtrney.htm A Cradle of Orthodoxy: St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church], by Dr Trevor Batrouney, 2001.
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before=[[Nicholas Shehadie]]|
title=Exarch of Australia<br>([[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Church of Antioch]])|
years=1934-1943|
after=[[George Haydar]]}}
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[[Category:Orthodoxy in Australia]]
[[Category:Orthodoxy in New Zealand]]
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