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Very Reverend Father '''Michael Shehadie''' was the succeeded his late father V Rev. Fr. [[Nicholas Shehadie]] as [[parish]] [[priest]] of St. George [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Antiochian]] Orthodox Church in , Redfern, NSW, Australia, serving from 1934 to -1951. He had succeeded his late father V Rev. Fr. [[Nicholas Shehadie]] as the parish priest.
==Life==Michael Shehadie was born in Lebanon in 1895, the second child of Fr. [[Nicholas Shehadie|Nicholas]] and [[Khourieh]] Alexandra Shehadie. Growing up there, he studied at Our Lady of Balamand Theological School, (in what is now Lebanon), and then at the [[St. Petersburg Theological Academy]] in , Russia. His wife Hannah (nee Khoury) did not want Michael to be [[ordination|ordained]] at that time, so Michael became a chemist/herbalist.
In 1925, Michael He joined his father in Sydney, Australia , in 1925 with his wife Hannah and their two daughters, Alexandra (Alice) (m. Mounir Doumani), and Paulette (m. Daniel Joseph). In Australia, Michael and Hannah then had another two more children, Nicholas (later Sir Nicholas) (m. Marie Bashir, current Governor of NSW), and George (m. Carmel Wigan).
After the repose of his father in 1934, he accepted ordination to the [[ordinationpriest]] to the priesthood hood and became the parish priest of the Church of St. George in Redfern. After his [[ordination]], the family then had an additional one more child, Margaret (m. Morris Hanna).
Following At the end of World War II, the Egyptian government offered Fr. Michael the position of Honorary Consul to Australia. Due to jealousy within the church community, and his devotion to the church, he had to decline the offer. The Egyptian government did would not accept anyone else, so the position remained unfilled.
In 1949, while Fr. Michael was the parish priest, the New South Wales NSW government decided to take back resume the land on which the church was built so that the on to erect Department of Housing could erect flats. Fr. Michael ensured with the NSW Minister, Clive Evatt, that found a suitable site would found close by to build a replacement church.
The times were It was a difficult time for Fr. Michael , as his father's church was demolished. Until a new church could be built the community , and they had to hold their services in the Sydney City Mission Hall in RedfernStreet. With Fr. Michael's Following his continual proddingpushing, land was finally granted at the corner of Walker and Cooper Streets in Redfern, for the building of a replacement church.
During this period Fr. Michael experienced He had such a traumatic time with a part section of the parish community, trauma that affected his health was badlyaffected. Do to the intensive atmosphere, he He suffered a fatal heart attack in 1951 at the age of 56. While Fr. Michael He had secured the land for a replacement church , and had building the plans were drafted, he but Fr. Michael did not live to see them realised.
Following his repose, his the plans were carried out put into effect and 'his' church was opened in 1954. Today this church is the Archdiocesan Cathedral.
==External links==
*[http://www.stnicholaspunchbowl.org.au/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21 History: The Antioch Orthodox Church in Australia] - St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, Sydney, New South Wales
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