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History of Antiochian Orthodoxy in Australasia

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Community Churches later under Jerusalem
Similar to most other jurisdictions in Australia, and other parts of the 'diaspora', a detailed early '''history of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania''' is better told in terms of cities, which later formed into the [[diocese]], rather than the other way around.
==Community Churches later under Jerusalem==
The first wave of Lebanese, then called Syrian, immigration was in the 1880-1890s, where work was found in hawking and peddling goods in the country areas of the eastern states of Australia and in Dunedin. The Antiochian Orthodox faithful in Australia took part in the construction of a community church dedicated to the Holy Trinity in Surry Hills, Sydney, and to the Holy Annunciation, East Melbourne, with the Greek and Russian Orthodox faithful. Priests able to speak Greek and Arabic and, sometimes, Russian, were later provided by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. Services were done in different old-world languages, servers of the parishes were from various immigrant backgrounds, and icons were donated by people from all Orthodox ethnicities.
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