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NATIVITY ENCYCLICAL OF HIS GRACE BISHOP SILUAN (2023)

+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...

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PASCHAL ENCYCLICAL OF HIS GRACE BISHOP SILUAN (2023)

  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...

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Patriarchal Pascha Encyclical 2023

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...

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BISHOP SILUAN’S APPEAL TO THE PRIME MINISTER REGARDING THE PERSECUTION OF MONASTICS IN THE KYIVO-PECHERSK LAVRA IN UKRAINE

  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...

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IN RESPONSE TO BLASPHEMOUS COMMENTS ON THE PROJECT

"…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,...

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PATRIARCHAL NATIVITY ENCYCLICAL 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 and peace from God the Father, and our...

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EPISCOPAL NATIVITY ENCYCLICAL 2022

+ 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...

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THE FEAST DAY OF THE ENTRANCE OF THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

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...

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THE 24TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

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...

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MAN OF GOD

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!

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To His Excellency and the Honourable David Hurley, Governor-General of Australia: Message of condolence on the death of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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...

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UPGRADING FACILITIES AT THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY ST STEFAN IN KEYSBOROUGH

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...

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DAI LE AND FRANK CARBONE VISITING BISHOP SILUAN

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....

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2022 PARTRIARCHAL PASCHAL ENCYCLICAL

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...

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2022 PASCHAL ENCYCLICAL – HIS GRACE BISHOP SILUAN

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...

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HEADING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

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...

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FROM THE OFFICE OF THE BISHOP OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

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...

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