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This article seeks to serve as a catch-all point for the 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).
==Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 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: Metropolitan Antony (Scharba). Based in New Jersey USA.
*Began: 1950
*Consistory President: Very Rev. Michael Solomko
*See more information and list of parishes on [http://www.orthodox.net.au/en/orthodox-australia/ukrainian Ukrainian Consistory on Orthodox Australia and Oceania]
*See more information on [http://www.ec-patr.org/dioceses.php?lang=gr&id=28 Diocesan Listing on Ecumenical Patriarchate website] (including outdated parish directory at bottom of page).
==Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the USA, Canada and Australia==
*Began: First parish in 1988.
#Sydney: Holy Protection Orthodox Church, Blacktown. Established 1988. [http://www.orthodoxy.org.au]
#Melbourne: Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, CollingwoodOakleigh. Established 1989. [http://www.ohtcmholy-trinity.org.au/englishversion/homeeng.html?lang=en]
#Newcastle: Parish of the Theophany, Mayfield West. Established 1996, since closed (c.2010)
==Orthodox Church in Ukraine in Australia==
*Number of Parishes: 5
*Began: 6th January 2019
*Orthodox Church of Ukraine - Former 'Kyivan Patriarchate': Part of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, with 5 parishes in Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide and Brisbane.
*With the Decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople 11/10/18 starting from Patriarch Philaret and Metropolitan Makary all anathemas, defrokments & excommunication were uplifted and all clergy under them restored to canonical status. On the 15/12/2018 the new head of the church Metropolitan Epiphanios was elected by the united Sobor of bishops assembly. Autocephaly and Tomos to the Ukrainian church was officially handed to the Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Epiphanios on January 6th 2019 in Constantinople by the Ecumenical Patriarch.
==Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia==
*[http://www.bulgariandiocese.org Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the USA, Canada and Australia]
*[http://www.orthodoxy.org.au/ Moscow Patriarchal Church Blacktown]
*[http://books.google.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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