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Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand
{{orthodoxyinaustralasiaorthodoxyinaustralia}}This article seeks to serve as a catch-all point for the five jurisdictions in Australia who are small enough to not warrant a resident bishop- both current (Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese and Moscow Patriarchal parishes) and former (Orthodox Church in America and Polish Orthodox Church Abroad). The largest is  ==Consistory of the Romanian Ukrainian Orthodox Churchin Australia and New Zealand==*Number of Parishes: 10 parishes and 2 missions, in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand.*Hierarch: Archbishop [[John (Derewianka) of Parnassus]].*Began: ''Unknown''.*Consistory President: Mitred Archpriest Mykola Serdiuk.*See more information on [http://www.ec-patr.org/dioceses.php?lang=gr&id=28 Diocesan Listing on Ecumenical Patriarchate website] (including parish directory at bottom of page).
==Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the USA, Canada and Australia==
*Began: First parish in 1950.
#Sydney: St [[John of Rila ]] Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [http://www.bulgariandiocese.org/parishdirectory.html?type=details&id=28][http://www.pageone.net.au/~rilski/index.htm]
#Melbourne: Sts Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [http://www.bulgariandiocese.org/parishdirectory.html?type=details&id=26]
#Adelaide: St Petka Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [http://www.bulgariandiocese.org/parishdirectory.html?type=details&id=27]
==Moscow Patriarchate in Australia==
*Number of Parishes: Three Two in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle).*Hierarch: Metropolitan Kyril Bishop Mark of Smolensk and KaliningradYegoryevsk, Head of Department Special Secretariat of External Church Relations, Patriarchate the Patriarchal Chancellery for Administration of Moscow and All RussiaPatriarchal Establishments Outside the Patriarchal Territories.<ref>[http://www.orthodoxeurope.org/page/14/169.aspx]</ref> *Began: First parish in 1988 (.#Sydney: Holy Protection Orthodox Church, Blacktown-Sydney); second parish in . Established 1988. [http://www.orthodoxy.org.au]#Melbourne; third parish in : Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Collingwood. Established 1989. [http://www.ohtcm.org.au/englishversion/homeeng.html]#Newcastle: Parish of the Theophany, Mayfield West. Established 1996 , since closed (Mayfield-Newcastlec.2010)
==Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia==
''main article: [[Parishes in Australia (OCA)]]''
*Number of Parishes: Two in Australia (one in Sydney, one in Brisbane)None.*Hierarch: Metropolitan [[Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York|Herman of Washington and New York]], administrator of the Parishes in Australia
*Began: 1971, in ROCOR schism.
#Sydney: St Nicholas Orthodox Church, Bankstown. Parish left ROCOR for OCA in 1971, and canonically transferred to the Antiochian Archdiocese in 2001.
#Brisbane: Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church, Woolloongabba. Priest left ROCOR in 1971, began a new OCA parish in 1974; parish canonically transferred to ROCOR in 2009.
#Sydney: Australian Orthodox Fraternity of St Michael, Homebush. Laypeople left ROCOR in 1971, and began a new OCA parish. Parish canonically transferred to the Serbian Diocese in 2011.
*Ended: 2011.
==Polish Orthodox Church in Australia==
*Number of Parishes: One in Australianone.*Hierarch: ''unknown''*Began: 19711969, with two priests who left ROCOR and were received as priests in ROCOR schism. ==Romanian the Polish Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand==*Number of Parishes: Six in Australia (1 in Melbourne, 2 in Sydney, 1 in Adelaide, 1 in Brisbane, 1 in Perth), three in New Zealand Abroad (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurchunder the Ecumenical Patriarchate).*HierarchEnded: Patriarch Teoctist Uncertain; however, both priests became priests of RomaniaOCA parishes.*Began: First parish in 1972
==External links==
*[http://www.bulgariandiocese.org Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the USA, Canada and Australia]
*[http://www.orthodoxy.org.au/ Moscow Patriarchal Church Blacktown]
*[http://wwwbooks.crezgoogle.org Romanian Churches com/books?id=Zuoyd6jG6q8C&lpg=PP1&dq=protopopov&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false A Russian Presence: A history of the Russian Church in Australia], by V. Rev. Fr Michael Protopopov (page 239).
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