To all clergy, monastics and the beloved faithful of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand Christ is Risen – Truly He is Risen!My dear spiritual children, by the grace of God,The most profound, most fateful quake in the history of humanity, a quake that tectonically moved, shattered and destroyed...
On Saturday, January 27, 2024, on the Feast Day and Slava Day of St. Sava the First Archbishop of Serbia, His Grace Bishop Siluan served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy at St. Sava New Kalenic Serbian Orthodox Monastery near Canberra with the concelebration of clergy from the Sydney Deanery. The monastery’s church was...
+SILUAN BY THE GRACE OF GOD THE ORTHODOX BISHOP OF ANZ To all clergy, monastic clergy, monastics and the faithful people of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand: God's Peace - Christ is Born! My dear spiritual children in the God-child Christ, The feast of Christmas, the Birth of the God-child Christ, is...
On Saturday, December 2, His Grace Bishop Siluan invited youth across Australia to attend a day retreat to St Sava New Kalenic Monastery in Wallaroo! We would like to thank all who attended our spiritually fulfilling day with youth coming from Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. We hope you learnt a...
To all the clergy, venerable monastics and faithful people of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand My dear spiritual children in the Godchild Christ, Gathered together in our holy churches across Australia and New Zealand on the Feast of the Resurrection, with loud voice we uplift songs of thanks and...
The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2023 PORFIRIJE By the Grace of God Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy...
Dear Prime Minister, I write to you on behalf of many concerned Orthodox faithful across Australia, concerning the outright persecution and trampling of religious freedoms and human rights that is taking place at the Holy Dormition Kyivo-Pechersk Lavra, otherwise known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv, Ukraine. The monks...
"…and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and raising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against..." (Luke 2:34) It has been brought to our attention that on Tuesday night, the 28th of February 2023,...
+ SILUAN BY THE MERCY OF GOD, ORTHODOX BISHOP OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH To all the clergy, monastics and faithful people of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand Peace of God – Christ is born! My dear spiritual children in the Godchild Christ, Gathered in our holy...
+ PORFIRIJE By the Grace of God Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and our...
On the 25th Sunday after Pentecost and the Feast Day of the Entrance of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple, Hierarchs - Metropolitan Petar and Bishop Siluan, concelebrated Divine Hierarchical Liturgy at the Macedonian Orthodox Church dedicated to the Feast of the Presentation of the Holy Theotokos...
On the 24th Sunday after Pentecost, His Grace Bishop Siluan of the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of ANZ and Metropolitan Petar of Prespa and Pelagonija and Administrator of Australia and New Zealand, served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy with clergy from both dioceses at the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate Cathedral of St George in...
SOYA Youth Ministry presents: Vespers and Screening of “Man of God” in attendance of His Grace Bishop Siluan Please read the posters for more details! All are welcome!
The Orthodox family seminar is proudly organised by the St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church, Blacktown with the blessings of His Grace Bishop Siluan on 3 December 2022 at 10 am. For more information please contact: info@stnicholasblacktown.org or 0431 622 241
We would like to inform all the faithful that the Spring Fair planned for the 16th of October 2022 at Saint Sava College in Varroville, is unfortunately cancelled due to excessive rainfall which has impacted the College grounds. Even so, the central spiritual festivities will continue commencing with the greeting of...
Your Excellency, It is with profound sadness that we write to convey to you our condolences and those of the reverend clergy and all the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand on the falling asleep of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II has been...
The Serbian Orthodox Church and School Community St Stefan in Keysborough received a grant from the Multiculural Community Infrastructure Fund to support infrastructure upgrades at 115 Church Road. The Infrastructure upgrades will include the rebuild of the hall ceiling, foyer and toilets refurbhisment, electrical supply upgrade, instalation of air conditioning and...
Australians in Sydney’s west and south-west have endured extreme difficulty and humiliation over the past two years and they have much to be concerned about when considering the future of their families and communities. Sadly, Sydney’s west was systematically degraded by both government and a complicit silent opposition during the pandemic....
To all the clergy, venerable monastics and faithful people of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! My dear spiritual children in the Resurrected Christ, Having hurried to our holy churches this Easter morning, just as the myrrh-bearing women had hurried very early to Christ’s...
The Serbian Orthodox Church to her spiritual children at Pascha, 2022 PORFIRIJE By the Grace of God Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, with all the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church to all the clergy, monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church: grace, mercy...
Australian families with roots in countries where ruthless government oppression knew no bounds, will remember that families, and in particular parental authority, was deemed an obstruction in the realisation of utopian pursuits. Amongst others, Stalin’s Soviet Union, communist Eastern Europe and Mao’s China immediately come to mind. Is it possible...
His Grace Bishop Siluan began staff development week with prayers for our principal, teachers and ancillary staff. His Grace welcomed three new teachers to St Sava College and wished Principal Mrs Anne Nicolaou a prosperous week of planning and organisation in anticipation of the return of our beloved children to the...
The Minister for Immigration, Mr Alex Hawke decided to exercise his discretionary power pursuant to Section 133C(3) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa, on the basis that it was “in the public interest to do so”. This would result in him being unable to compete...
We would like to inform the Australian public that today, when Serbian Orthodox believers celebrate the blessed Feast of the Holy Nativity of Christ - Christmas, the rector of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Melbourne, The Very Reverend Archpriest Milorad Loncar, with the blessings of His Grace Bishop Siluan, requested...
