Australian and New Zealand Diocese (ROCOR)

Your Graces Brother-Archpastors, Honorable Fathers,
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord!

I sincerely greet you with the 725th Anniversary of the appearance of the miraculous Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God of the “Sign,” and with the Centennial of the founding of the Higher Church Administration Abroad, which later was transformed into the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad. We are not marking the events that destroyed all the foundations of Pre-Revolutionary Russia, and which hit extremely hard on our dear Mother – the Local Russian Orthodox Church – having pushed Her, together with the whole country, onto a path of great suffering, repression, martyrdom and confession. Rather, we raise up gratitude to God, Who has preserved us under the shelter of our precious Orthodox Faith, in the traditions of the glorious Russian Church. (more…)

2020 is a festive year for the Skete – it is the 60th anniversary since its founding in 1960, by Monk Guri, a refugee from Communist China. Bishop George was unable to serve the Liturgy for the Skete feast day earlier this year. However, we are organising a more modest celebration on Saturday the 31st October. We invite all Sydney clergy, their parishioners and all friends of the Skete, to come to the Skete on that day at 11.30am when His Grace, Bishop George, will serve a Molieben to St John the Baptist, to be followed by a buffet lunch and a cup of tea for everyone!!! (more…)

The next Faith&Wisdom: Family Edition talk, hosted by St John the Baptist Cathedral, Canberra, will be held on Monday, 28 September 2020 at 7.30pm. (more…)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian Orthodox Male Choir of Australia went virtual with choristers recording their parts from home, the conductor Nektary Kotlaroff and chorister Adrian Metlenko merging the audio and visual of each clip together to produce the final recording, and finally releasing on ROMCA’s social media channels. The videos produced sparked interest from musicians all around the world, in particular conductors and composers from Russia.  (more…)

Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, to the Participants of the 100th-Anniversary Celebrations Organized by the “Two-Headed Eagle” Society (more…)

You are invited to join the next online Faith&Wisdom: Family Edition panel discussion hosted by Priest Stephen David, cleric of St John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Canberra. The discussions will be joined by two senior priest of the Diocese, Archpriests Nicholas Karipoff and Nicholas Dalinkiewicz, clerics of the Holy Protection Cathedral, Brunswick, VIC. (more…)

This year, due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Sodruzhestvo XIII will be conducted in online format from 14th to 19th July 2020. The exact times of events will be specified (on 1 July) once time-zone differences have been optimised for participants joining from different countries. This “online format” Sodruzhestvo to be used will be Zoom or similar and has the potential to achieve record attendance with up to 1,000 online participants from 24 countries. (more…)

You are invited to attend an online talk on ‘Christian classical education’ hosted by Priest Stephen David, cleric of St John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Canberra, on Tuesday, 21 July 2020 from 20:00 to 21:30. Please click here for further information.

On Sunday 14 June 2020, St John the Baptist Cathedral in Canberra hosted an online panel discussion, via Zoom, on ‘The attributes of Christian marriage’ as part of its Faith&Wisdom: Family Edition ministry. On the panel was Fr Andrew Smith (rector of The Holy Annunciation parish, QLD), Fr Mark Wolozyn (cleric of The Holy Protection Cathedral, VIC) and moderated by Fr Stephen David (cleric of St John the Baptist Cathedral, ACT). (more…)