{"id":17660,"date":"2025-07-28T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/?p=17660"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:08:54","slug":"feast-day-of-st-vladimir-celebrated-at-centennial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/?p=17660","title":{"rendered":"Feast Day of St Vladimir Celebrated at Centennial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/st_vlads_5.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/st_vlads_5-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/st_vlads_5-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/st_vlads_5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/st_vlads_5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/st_vlads_5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>On Monday, 28th July 2025, the parish of St Vladimir Church in Centennial Park, NSW, joyfully celebrated its patronal feast day in honour of St Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles. The occasion was marked with the Divine Liturgy served by His Eminence George, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Co-serving with His Eminence were Archpriest Daniel Metlenko, parish rector, Deacon Mark Shigelski, and clergy from the Sydney Deanery. Despite it being a regular working day, the church was filled with faithful parishioners, the majority of whom partook of Holy Communion.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the Divine Liturgy, a cross procession took place around the church. Upon its conclusion, Archbishop George offered his heartfelt\u00a0<span class=\"mark2061uuk18 uM2yb\" data-markjs=\"true\">congratulations<\/span> to Fr Daniel, Deacon Mark, and the parishioners on their feast day. The traditional &#8220;Many Years&#8221; was joyfully intoned by the protodeacon.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The celebration continued in the church hall, where the parish sisterhood warmly invited everyone to share in a festive luncheon, fostering a spirit of unity and fellowship among all present.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The day served as a beautiful testament to the spiritual life of the parish and their deep veneration for their heavenly patron, St Vladimir.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"gallery-1\" class=\"gallery galleryid-17660 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail\"><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"highslide img_2\" 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The occasion was marked with the Divine Liturgy served by His Eminence George, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand. Co-serving with His Eminence were Archpriest Daniel Metlenko, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7,5],"tags":[254,20],"class_list":["post-17660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocesan-news","category-articles","category-english","category-photos","tag-archbishop-george","tag-centennial-park"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17660\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/news10\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}