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This is a collection of articles about Antiochian Orthodox priests who have served in Australia or New Zealand.

==New South Wales==
*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Nicholas Shehadie]]''', [[exarch]] of Australia and New Zealand, 1913-1934.

*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Michael Shehadie]]''', [[parish]] [[priest]] of St. George Church, Redfern, 1934-51.

V. Rev. Exarch '''''Malatius Hussney''''' was from Tripoli Mina, Lebanon. Assisted by his [[Presbytera|Khourieh]] Adele and their family, he was [[rector]] of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, Redfern, NSW, Australia, from February 1953 until his repose on [[October 29]], 1956. He was the father of Essay Hussney, [[ordination|ordained]] as Fr. Malatius (Essam) Hussney.

During his time as rector, the foundation stone of the parish of St George was laid in October 1953 by [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox]] [[Archbishop]] [[Theophylactos (Papathanasopoulos) of Australia and New Zealand|Theophylactos]], and the first services in the as-yet unfinished [[church]] were the [[Pascha]] services of 1954.  The [[iconostasis]] of Queensland maple was finished in 1956, before his repose.

Rt. Rev. [[Archimandrite|Archim.]] '''''Anthony (Woolf)''''' was the [[rector]] of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church Redfern, NSW, and Patriarchal Exarch to Australia, arriving [[April 6]], 1957  Under his guidance the [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Antiochian Orthodox Church in Australia]] was active in the Australian Council of Churches. 

He was described as 'very popular with young people because [with him] they understood what was happening. Most of all he would take them out on trips, such as to Luna Park. When he came to visit, families felt proud of themselves because he parked his big American car outside. He would sit with all the children in the kitchen.' (''St George Cathedral and its People'', 2004, p. 40)

Having left for Damascus on [[February 12]], 1961, Archim. Anthony reposed en route at Cairo in April 1961.

Rev. Fr. '''''Stephen Godley''''' was a priest of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand]].  He was a [[deacon]] by 1982[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/spotlight/spot80-83.html], and was ordained to the priesthood.  In 1987, he was listed as being the parish priest of St Mary's in Mays Hill during their move from Granville to Merrylands[http://www.antiochianarch.org.au/HistoryofAntiochianOrthodoxyinAustralasia.aspx].  In 1996, he authored ''The Eastern Orthodox in Australia'', which was published by the Australian Government Publishing Service. By 2000, he had retired from active service in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese.  In 2010, he liturgised at the briefly-established Nowra mission of the Antiochian Archdiocese.  He had a long career on ABC Radio[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/01/23/4167229.htm], and presented at the 1995 [[St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College (Sydney, Australia)|SAGOTC]] Retreat[http://www.greekorthodox.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VoO_Aug_1995.pdf].

Rev. Fr. '''''John Shehadie''''', born 1908, was the second son of Rev. [[Exarch]] [[Nicholas Shehadie]] to be ordained priest.  Part of Bp. [[Gibran (Ramlawey) of Australia and New Zealand|Gibran]]'s plans when he came to Australia included the building of a new church in the western suburbs of Sydney, and so, St. Nicholas Church was built in Punchbowl, a suburb once referred to as 'little Lebanon' (in the same way as Redfern was once referred to as 'little Syria').  Fr. John served here from 1973 until his retirement in 1987.  Among the Arabic-speaking community, he was usually known as 'Fr. Hanna' (being the abbreviation of his originally-Arabic name)

V. Rev. Fr. '''''Nicolas Mansour''''' was the Exarch of the Church of Antioch for Australia and New Zealand, and was the Rector of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, and then Dean of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, 1962-2005.

*Rt. Rev. Archim. '''[[Nabil (Kachab)]]''', vicar-general of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand, 2005-present.

*V. Rev. Protopresbyter '''[[Mitko Machevski]]''', parish priest of St Nicholas Church, Bankstown, 1997-present.

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before=[[Michael Shehadie]]|
title=V. Rev. Malatius Hussney<br>Exarch of Australia (in Sydney), ([[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Church of Antioch]])|
years=1953-1956|
after=Anthony Woolf}}
{{succession|
before=Malatius Hussney, Sr|
title=Archim. Anthony (Woolf)<br>Exarch of Australia (in Sydney), (Church of Antioch)|
years=1957-1961|
after=[[Nicolas Mansour]]}}
{{succession|
before=Sydney: [[Anthony (Woolf)]] <br> Melbourne: [[George Haydar]]|
title=V. Rev. Fr Nicolas Mansour<br>Patriarchal Exarch of Australia and New Zealand<br>(Church of Antioch)|
years=1962-1969|
after=[[Gibran (Ramlawey) of Australia and New Zealand|Gibran (Ramlawey)]], Patriarchal Vicar}}
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before=''none''|
title=V. Rev. Fr Nicolas Mansour<br>Vicar General, [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Antiochian Orthodox]]<br>Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|
years=1969-2006|
after=[[Nabil (Kachab)]]}}
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==Melbourne==
*Rt. Rev. Fr. '''[[Antonious (Mobayed)]]''', was representative of the Church of Antioch to the [[Church of Russia]], 1914-1929, and the founding priest of St. Nicholas Church, East Melbourne, 1931-1943.

V. Rev. Fr. '''''George Haydar''''' was a priest who served in Melbourne, Australia, between 1948 and 1962, and also as Exarch of the Church of Antioch from his arrival until the arrival of Fr Malatius Hussney in Sydney.

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before=[[Antonious (Mobayed)]]|
title=V. Rev. Fr. George Haydar<br>Exarch of Australia, ([[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Church of Antioch]])|
years=1948-1953|
after=[[Malatius (Essam) Hussney|Malatius Hussney]] (Senior)}}
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Rev. Fr. '''''Malatius (Essam) Hussney''''' was born Essam Hussney, son of Rev. Exarch Malatius Hussney; he was ordained after his father's repose and given the name 'Malatius' in honour of his father.  He served at St. Nicholas Church, East Melbourne, between 1968-77, and then served parishes in the USA.

==New Zealand==
Rev. Hmk. '''''Nicholas (Manovitch)''''' was the founding priest of St Michael Orthodox Church, Dunedin. He appears to have received ordination from a [[bishop]] in Canada that was outside the Orthodox Church, then went to New Zealand where he encouraged the Orthodox Syrians to found St Michael's, pastoring it between 1913-16, and went to Australia where he had close ties to the Bolshevik group in Brisbane. He was arrested for extortion, demanding outrageous amounts of money for [[baptism]]s and weddings, and disappeared from the religious scene when Fr. [[Paul Korchinsky]] came to Australia, at the request of the Russian Imperial Consul-General. He died in 1925 and is buried in Queensland.

''Source'': V. Rev. Fr. [[Michael Protopopov]], ''[http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp87.09042006/02whole.pdf The Russian Orthodox Presence in Australia]'', p24-35.

*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Jack Witbrock]]''' was the Dean of New Zealand, 2003-till his repose in 2012, and the first New Zealander ordained to the priesthood, serving St. Michael's Orthodox Church, Dunedin, 1971-87 and Ss. Simon and Jude, Ashley, from 1987 until his repose.

*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Ilyan Eades]]''' was an archpriest in the Deanery of New Zealand and served at St. Michael's Orthodox Church, Dunedin, from 1987 until his repose.

*Rev. Fr. '''Ian Nield''' was a priest of the Antiochian Orthodox missionary parish in Wellington, 2003-2013.

Rev. Fr. '''''Michael Elder''''' was a rector of the domestic [[chapel]] in Diamond Harbour, New Zealand[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/parishes/Dhb/chapel_frame.htm]. Born in the 1920s, he was ordained to the diaconate in the 1990s. At the first New Zealand [[clergy]] conference for the Deanery of New Zealand in January 2003, he was ordained to the priesthood, and in 2004 he was awarded the [[epigonation]] by Met. Abp. Paul, making him a Confessor[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/spotlight/spot04b.html]. He has also written an article, entitled ''[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/brite/ Byzantine Rite Worship in the Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church]''.

==Related articles==
*[[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand]]
*[[Gibran (Rimlawi) of Australia and New Zealand]]
*[[Paul (Saliba) of Australia and New Zealand]]

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